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The long and the short of why time is hard

Out of 291 trips taken by W20529, how long was the longest? How short was the shortest? Does anything look fishy?

As before, data has been loaded as onebike_durations.

This exercise is part of the course

Working with Dates and Times in Python

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Exercise instructions

  • Calculate shortest_trip from onebike_durations.
  • Calculate longest_trip from onebike_durations.
  • Print the results, turning shortest_trip and longest_trip into strings so they can print.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Calculate shortest and longest trips
shortest_trip = ____(____)
longest_trip = ____(____)

# Print out the results
print("The shortest trip was " + ____ + " seconds")
print("The longest trip was " + ____ + " seconds")
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