Convert standard format date string to datetime object

Question

I have a list of tuples, each containing a date and then a number.

days = [('04/02/15', 4.5),('03/15/15', 5.0),('04/21/15', 1.9)]

I want to sort them by date. How do I convert them to DateTime objects or otherwise sort them?

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MikeVaughan Apr 24 15 at 13:48

1 answer

Mureinik · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-24T13:55:34+0000

You can use strptime

:

from time import strptime
days = [('04/02/15', 4.5), ('03/15/15', 5.0), ('04/21/15', 1.9)]
days.sort(key = lambda tup: strptime(tup[0], '%m/%d/%y'))