Find oldest youngest datetime object in a list

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I ve got a list of datetime objects  and I want to find the oldest or youngest one  Some of these dates might be in the future   from datetime import datetime  datetime list         datetime 2009  10  12  10  10       datetime 2010  10  12  10  10       datetime 2010  10  12  10  10       datetime 2011  10  12  10  10    future     datetime 2012  10  12  10  10    future     What s the most optimal way to do so  I was thinking of comparing datetime now   to each one of those

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Oldest   oldest   min datetimes    Youngest before now   now   datetime datetime now pytz utc  youngest   max dt for dt in datetimes if dt  lt  now

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The datetime module has its own versions of min and max as available methods  https   docs python org 2 library datetime html

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have u tried this        from datetime import datetime as DT     l         l append DT 1988 12 12       l append DT 1979 12 12       l append DT 1979 12 11       l append DT 2011 12 11       l append DT 2022 12 11       min l  datetime datetime 1979  12  11  0  0      max l  datetime datetime 2022  12  11  0  0

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Datetimes are comparable  so you can use max datetimes list  and min datetimes list

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Given a list of dates dates   Max date is max dates   Min date is min dates

[python] Find oldest/youngest datetime object in a list

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