Django model group by datetime's date

Question

Assume I have a such model:

class Entity(models.Model):
    start_time = models.DateTimeField()

I want to regroup them as list of l

Answer 1

Create a small function to extract just the date:

def extract_date(entity):
    'extracts the starting date from an entity'
    return entity.start_time.date()

Then you can use it with itertools.groupby:

from itertools import groupby

entities = Entity.objects.order_by('start_time')
for start_date, group in groupby(entities, key=extract_date):
    do_something_with(start_date, list(group))

Or, if you really want a list of lists:

entities = Entity.objects.order_by('start_time')
list_of_lists = [list(g) for t, g in groupby(entities, key=extract_date)]