sort dates in python array

Question

How to sort the below array of dates on python 2.4

 timestamps = [\'2011-06-2\', \'2011-08-05\', \'2011-02-04\', \'2010-1-14\', \'2010-12-13\', \'2010-1-12\'         


        

Answer 1

>>> import datetime
>>> dates = [datetime.datetime.strptime(ts, "%Y-%m-%d") for ts in timestamps]
>>> dates.sort()
>>> sorteddates = [datetime.datetime.strftime(ts, "%Y-%m-%d") for ts in dates]
>>> sorteddates
['2010-01-12', '2010-01-14', '2010-02-07', '2010-02-11', '2010-11-16', '2010-11-
22', '2010-11-23', '2010-11-26', '2010-12-02', '2010-12-13', '2011-02-04', '2011
-06-02', '2011-08-05', '2011-11-30']