DFS wrote:
>
> Not wanting to use any date parsing libraries,
>
If you happen reconsider date parsing libraries
the strptime function from the datetime module
might be useful
#!/usr/bin/env python3
from datetime import datetime
dates = [ '10-Mar-1998' ,
'20
Datetime has greater range I believe. I can't paste from my work computer,
but try this:
min(datetime.datetime.strptime(s, "%d-%b-%Y") for s in dts)
You should get the 1908 date instead of the 1969 date.
In general, you should always use datetime instead of time for doing date
manipulation and d
Am Donnerstag, 8. Dezember 2016 14:47:31 UTC+1 schrieb DFS:
> On 12/8/2016 12:16 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > On Thursday 08 December 2016 03:15, DFS wrote:
> >
> >> dts= ['10-Mar-1998',
> >> '20-Aug-1997',
> >> '06-Sep-2009',
> >> '23-Jan-2010',
> >> '12-Feb-2010
DFS wrote:
>dts= ['10-Mar-1998',
> '20-Aug-1997',
> '06-Sep-2009',
> '23-Jan-2010',
> '12-Feb-2010',
> '05-Nov-2010',
> '03-Sep-2009',
> '07-Nov-2014',
> '08-Mar-2013']
>Of course, the naive:
>min(dates) = '03-Sep-2009'
>max(dates) = '23-Jan-2010'
On Thursday 08 December 2016 03:15, DFS wrote:
> dts= ['10-Mar-1998',
> '20-Aug-1997',
> '06-Sep-2009',
> '23-Jan-2010',
> '12-Feb-2010',
> '05-Nov-2010',
> '03-Sep-2009',
> '07-Nov-2014',
> '08-Mar-2013']
>
> Of course, the naive:
