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

map(lambda x:x[1], sorted(map(lambda a:[map(int,a.split('-')),a], timestamps)))

['2010-1-12',
 '2010-1-14',
 '2010-2-07',
 '2010-2-11',
 '2010-11-16',
 '2010-11-22',
 '2010-11-23',
 '2010-11-26',
 '2010-12-02',
 '2010-12-13',
 '2011-02-04',
 '2011-06-2',
 '2011-08-05',
 '2011-11-30']