Thanks Peter. The following lines worked:
import glob
import datetime
def get_datetime (filename):
parts = filename.split ("_")
return datetime.datetime.strptime (parts[1] + parts[2], "%d%b%Y%H%M")
filenames = sorted(glob.glob('3RIMG _ *. h5'), key = get_datetime)
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