Fixed #33562 -- Made HttpResponse.set_cookie() support timedelta for the max_age argument.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/django/http/response.py b/django/http/response.py
index 8ae4719575..59120c8e0d 100644
--- a/django/http/response.py
+++ b/django/http/response.py
@@ -227,6 +227,10 @@ class HttpResponseBase:
         - a naive ``datetime.datetime`` object in UTC,
         - an aware ``datetime.datetime`` object in any time zone.
         If it is a ``datetime.datetime`` object then calculate ``max_age``.
+
+        ``max_age`` can be:
+        - int/float specifying seconds,
+        - ``datetime.timedelta`` object.
         """
         self.cookies[key] = value
         if expires is not None:
@@ -246,6 +250,8 @@ class HttpResponseBase:
         else:
             self.cookies[key]["expires"] = ""
         if max_age is not None:
+            if isinstance(max_age, datetime.timedelta):
+                max_age = max_age.total_seconds()
             self.cookies[key]["max-age"] = int(max_age)
             # IE requires expires, so set it if hasn't been already.
             if not expires: