Timedelta Unit Argument as a Variable [duplicate]

Question

Is it possible to have the units argument for the timedelta function be defined by a variable?

To elaborate, is this possible?

Time_Unit = "days"
Time_Increment = 1

Time2 = Time1 + timedelta(Time_Unit=Time_Increment)

Where Time1 and Time2 will be in Days. But if I change Time_Unit = "seconds" and Time_Increment = 25, How can I do that?

The time format I'm using is ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ssZ), so Time1 and Time2 can be easily incremented in seconds, minutes, hours, etc.

I followed the manual, but couldn't find an answer.

Warcupine · Accepted Answer · 2025-11-06 20:05:16Z

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You can use ** to pass keyword arguments and do this

Time_Unit = "days"
Time_Increment = 1

Time2 = Time1 + timedelta(**{Time_Unit:Time_Increment})

answered Nov 6 at 20:05

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