Thanks all! This is terrific, and a quick response... I have to go with the 2.4 version, but thanks to everyone...
Tim Golden-4 wrote: > > 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 > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/find-nearest-time-in-datetime-list-tp15180398p15183205.html Sent from the Python - python-list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list