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max, with a key solution in Clear category for Latest ISO datetime by Phil15

import datetime, functools

get_latest = functools.partial(max, key=datetime.datetime.fromisoformat)

Jan. 13, 2023

Comments:

hkgok1 on Jan. 21, 2023, 6:30 a.m.
Very Concise and good usage of functools partial

Phil15 on May 12, 2023, 9:28 a.m.
Note: Here, <pre class='brush: python'>max</pre> would be enough by itself (because isoformat is sortable by design), but it would be easy to change this solution to consider other datetime formats, something like: <pre class='brush: python'>get_latest = functools.partial(max, key=lambda s: datetime.datetime.strptime(s, '%H:%M %d/%m/%Y')) </pre>

Selindian on June 3, 2024, 4:31 p.m.
I myself have only compared using <pre class='brush: python'>inline-if in combination with ></pre>, as I was lazy. But I like and prefer your solution because it is easy to adapt to more exotic date formats. Thanks for sharing.

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