find nearest time in datetime list

[washakie]

Thanks all! This is terrific, and a quick response... I have to go with the
2.4 version, but thanks to everyone...



Tim Golden-4 wrote:
> 
> washakie wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have a list of datetime objects: DTlist, I have another single datetime
>> object: dt, ... I need to find the nearest DTlist[i]  to the dt .... is
>> there a simple way to do this? There isn't necessarily an exact match... 
> 
> <code>
> import datetime
> 
> dates = [datetime.date (2007, 1, (1+i)*2) for i in range (10)]
> one_date = datetime.date (2007, 1, 7)
> 
> print sorted (dates, key=lambda x: abs (x-one_date))[0]
> 
> </code>
> 
> 
> TJG
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