python 列表排序不改变,在Python中对列表进行排序不会产生正确的结果

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python问题：

我正在运行一个排序函数来按日期排序一些数据,并得到不正确的输出.我准备了我的代码的简短版本,其中包含一些示例数据以显示错误(完整代码无趣,完整的实际数据是专有的).

这是代码：

import operator

mylist = [['CustomerID_12345', 'TransactionID_1001', '12/31/2012'],

['CustomerID_12345', 'TransactionID_1002', '3/12/2013'],

['CustomerID_12345', 'TransactionID_1003', '1/7/2013'],

['CustomerID_12345', 'TransactionID_1004', '12/31/2012']]

sorted_list = sorted(mylist, key=operator.itemgetter(2))

print type(mylist)

print len(mylist)

for i in mylist:

print i

print "" # just for a line break for convenience

for i in sorted_list:

print i

输出是：

4

['CustomerID_12345', 'TransactionID_1001', '12/31/2012']

['CustomerID_12345', 'TransactionID_1002', '3/12/2013']

['CustomerID_12345', 'TransactionID_1003', '1/7/2013']

['CustomerID_12345', 'TransactionID_1004', '12/31/2012']

['CustomerID_12345', 'TransactionID_1003', '1/7/2013']

['CustomerID_12345', 'TransactionID_1001', '12/31/2012']

['CustomerID_12345', 'TransactionID_1004', '12/31/2012']

['CustomerID_12345', 'TransactionID_1002', '3/12/2013']

第一个块是原始数据,第二个块是输出.由于我尝试按日期排序,因此很容易看出排序无法正常工作.

有人可以帮助解释错误并建议如何纠正它吗？

提前致谢 ：)

这是因为python将它们视为字符串而不是日期.

这是因为’1’小于’2′,小于’3′

‘/’也小于数字,所以有你的问题.

而是尝试将它们作为日期进行比较,使用datetime模块.

这是一个示例：

from datetime import datetime

your_date = datetime.strptime('1/1/2013', "%m/%d/%Y")

my_date = datetime.strptime('12/3/2011', "%m/%d/%Y")

print your_date > my_date

[Out]: True