Question

I have a list of birthdays stored in datetime objects. How would one go about sorting these in Python using only the month and day arguments?

For example,

[
    datetime.datetime(1983, 1, 1, 0, 0)
    datetime.datetime(1996, 1, 13, 0 ,0)
    datetime.datetime(1976, 2, 6, 0, 0)
    ...
]

Thanks! 🙂

Answer 1

You can use month and day to create a value that can be used for sorting:

birthdays.sort(key = lambda d: (d.month, d.day))