Turning pairs of datetimes into durations

When working with timestamps, we often want to know how much time has elapsed between events. Thankfully, we can use datetime arithmetic to ask Python to do the heavy lifting for us so we don't need to worry about day, month, or year boundaries. Let's calculate the number of seconds that the bike was out of the dock for each trip.

Continuing our work from a previous coding exercise, the bike trip data has been loaded as the list onebike_datetimes. Each element of the list consists of two datetime objects, corresponding to the start and end of a trip, respectively.

Within the loop:
- Use the the start and end objects to find the length of the trip and call it trip_duration.
- Calculate the trip_length_seconds from trip_duration.
- Append trip_length_seconds to the list onebike_durations.

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Turning pairs of datetimes into durations

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