In article <mailman.12816.1407668534.18130.python-l...@python.org>, Dave Angel <da...@davea.name> wrote:
> Your simplest answer is probably to write a function that converts > a string like you have into a datetime object, say call it > converter (). Then after testing it, you call > > min (dates, key = converter) Wow, after all these years, I didn't know min() took a key argument. Of course, it makes sense, but I just never noticed that before. Thanks! And for the OP, for the converter function, I would suggest dateutil.parse.parser(), from the python-dateutil module (https://labix.org/python-dateutil). -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
