freecodecamp--freecodecamp/curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/daily-coding-challenges-python/6a26df3e2988bcdded204896.md

id, title, challengeType, dashedName

id	title	challengeType	dashedName
6a26df3e2988bcdded204896	Challenge 360: Spoken Duration	29	challenge-360

--description--

Given a number of seconds, return the duration in spoken English.

• Break the duration into hours, minutes, and seconds.
• Skip any zero values.
• Use singular or plural as appropriate ("1 hour", "2 hours").
• If present, join the last two units with "and", and the second and third to last units with a comma ("1 hour, 2 minutes and 3 seconds").

--hints--

get_spoken_duration(3723) should return "1 hour, 2 minutes and 3 seconds".

({test: () => { runPython(`
from unittest import TestCase
TestCase().assertEqual(get_spoken_duration(3723), "1 hour, 2 minutes and 3 seconds")`)
}})

get_spoken_duration(7295) should return "2 hours, 1 minute and 35 seconds".

({test: () => { runPython(`
from unittest import TestCase
TestCase().assertEqual(get_spoken_duration(7295), "2 hours, 1 minute and 35 seconds")`)
}})

get_spoken_duration(8521) should return "2 hours, 22 minutes and 1 second".

({test: () => { runPython(`
from unittest import TestCase
TestCase().assertEqual(get_spoken_duration(8521), "2 hours, 22 minutes and 1 second")`)
}})

get_spoken_duration(435) should return "7 minutes and 15 seconds".

({test: () => { runPython(`
from unittest import TestCase
TestCase().assertEqual(get_spoken_duration(435), "7 minutes and 15 seconds")`)
}})

get_spoken_duration(14455) should return "4 hours and 55 seconds".

({test: () => { runPython(`
from unittest import TestCase
TestCase().assertEqual(get_spoken_duration(14455), "4 hours and 55 seconds")`)
}})

get_spoken_duration(72000) should return "20 hours".

({test: () => { runPython(`
from unittest import TestCase
TestCase().assertEqual(get_spoken_duration(72000), "20 hours")`)
}})

get_spoken_duration(1) should return "1 second".

({test: () => { runPython(`
from unittest import TestCase
TestCase().assertEqual(get_spoken_duration(1), "1 second")`)
}})

--seed--

--seed-contents--

def get_spoken_duration(seconds):

    return seconds

--solutions--

def get_spoken_duration(seconds):
    hours = seconds // 3600
    minutes = (seconds % 3600) // 60
    secs = seconds % 60

    parts = []
    if hours:
        parts.append(f"{hours} {'hour' if hours == 1 else 'hours'}")
    if minutes:
        parts.append(f"{minutes} {'minute' if minutes == 1 else 'minutes'}")
    if secs:
        parts.append(f"{secs} {'second' if secs == 1 else 'seconds'}")

    if len(parts) == 1:
        return parts[0]
    if len(parts) == 2:
        return f"{parts[0]} and {parts[1]}"
    return f"{parts[0]}, {parts[1]} and {parts[2]}"