> 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...
import datetime dates = [datetime.datetime(2007,m, 1) for m in range(1,13)] test_date = datetime.datetime(2007,4,15) closest = sorted(dates, key=lambda d: abs(test_date - d))[0] print closest -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
