washakie wrote: > Hello, > > I have a list of datetime objects: DTlist, I have another single datetime > object: dt, ... I need to find the nearest DTlist[i] to the dt .... is > there a simple way to do this? There isn't necessarily an exact match...
<code> import datetime dates = [datetime.date (2007, 1, (1+i)*2) for i in range (10)] one_date = datetime.date (2007, 1, 7) print sorted (dates, key=lambda x: abs (x-one_date))[0] </code> TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
