Checking for overlap between time spans

Question

I have a list of time entries (HHMM format) with a start time and a stop. I\'m having trouble figuring out how to code it in Python where it returns if there\'s an overlap o

Answer 1

Assuming you have an intervals_overlap(interval1, interval2) function…

The first idea is a naive iteration over every pair of intervals in the list:

for interval1 in intervals:
    for interval2 in intervals:
        if interval1 is not interval2:
            if intervals_overlap(interval1, interval2):
                return True
return False

But you should be able to figure out smarter ways of dong this.