DFS wrote:
> ....
> Not wanting to use any date parsing libraries,
> ....
If you happen reconsider date parsing libraries
the strptime function from the datetime module
might be useful ....
#!/usr/bin/env python3
from datetime import datetime
dates = [ '10-Mar-1998' ,
'20-Aug-1997' ,
'06-Sep-2009' ,
'23-Jan-2010' ,
'12-Feb-2010' ,
'05-Nov-2010' ,
'03-Sep-2009' ,
'07-Nov-2014' ,
'08-Mar-2013' ]
dict_dates = { }
print( )
for this_date in dates :
dt = datetime.strptime( this_date , '%d-%b-%Y' )
sd = dt.strftime( '%Y-%m-%d' )
print( ' {0} .... {1}'.format( this_date , sd ) )
dict_dates[ sd ] = this_date
min_date = min( dict_dates.keys() )
max_date = max( dict_dates.keys() )
print( '\n {0} .... {1} min'.format( dict_dates[ min_date ] , min_date ) )
print( '\n {0} .... {1} max'.format( dict_dates[ max_date ] , max_date ) )
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