Advanced sorting of a built-in list

[Whisper40]

Hello everyone, I'm new to the python forum and I need help about ending my python program.

My goal is to sort a built-in list by date of birth of the person from oldest to youngest.

Once this sorting is done, I then add the names and first names in relation of course...

I tried several things, but unfortunately I only managed to do it by using the person's age ("example: 18 years" but I didn't manage to do it for "18/06/1989").

I would like to do this without using a sort function.
So i don't want to reproduce the use of sort function..

The goal is ultimately to make this sorting by calling a function and the return is supposed to be of this type.
WILSON MIKE 26/06/1950
EMERIC JAMES 27/06/1960
MOPAL ARTHUR 27/06/1966



At the moment I have been able to do it only with the age of the form "66" and not "26/06/1966" of the person as well as with the use of sorting...

listepersonnes = [['WILSON', 'MIKE', 'H', '68'], ['EMERIC', 'JAMES', 'H', '58'], ['MOPAL', 'ARTHUR', 'H', '52']]
def agepersonne():
  print(sorted([i[:4] for i in listepersonnes], key=lambda x: x[3], reverse = True))
agepersonne()

Result is :

WILSON MIKE 68
EMERIC JAMES 58
MOPAL ARTHUR 52

My new list of persons should be like this :

listepersonnes = [['WILSON', 'MIKE', 'H', '26/06/1950'], ['EMERIC', 'JAMES', 'H', '27/06/1960'], ['MOPAL', 'ARTHUR', 'H', '27/06/1966']]

Thanks for all !

[snippsat]

You most first check if date string work as date object.

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datetime.strptime('26/06/1950', '%d/%m/%Y')
datetime.datetime(1950, 6, 26, 0, 0)

Now can sort bye dates.

>>> lst = [['WILSON', 'MIKE', 'H', '26/06/1950'], ['EMERIC', 'JAMES', 'H', '27/06/1960'], ['MOPAL', 'ARTHUR', 'H', '27/06/1966']]
>>> sorted(lst, key=lambda item: datetime.strptime(item[3], '%d/%m/%Y'), reverse=True)
[['MOPAL', 'ARTHUR', 'H', '27/06/1966'],
 ['EMERIC', 'JAMES', 'H', '27/06/1960'],
 ['WILSON', 'MIKE', 'H', '26/06/1950']]

reverse it will be from oldest to youngest.
The first and last name should maybe not be split up,could be one string 'WILSON MIKE'.

[Whisper40]

Thanks for the answer !
Yes, I understand your grouping between name and first name, but I need to separate them to use them in other functions.

But your code use the sort function :)
My wish is not to use the sorting function but rather to do it by hand.
As you can see I already realized the process with the sorting function but this time I want to do it completely by hand.

Thanks for all !

[Whisper40]

Hello,
I slightly modified the list
Could you tell me how to sort out the dates ?

L = [['WILSON', 'MIKE', 'H', '19500626'], ['EMERIC', 'JAMES', 'H', '19600626'], ['MOPAL', 'ARTHUR', 'H', '19660627']]
def triInsertion(L):
    for i in range(len(L)):
        if L[i][3] > L[i-1][3]:
            for k in range(0, i):
                if L[i] < L[k]:
                    X = L.pop(i)
                    L.insert(k, X)
                    break
    return L
 
triInsertion(L)

[nilamo]

Moved to homework, as this is clearly homework.

What do your dates look like? Every post has a different format for them, with the last one not really looking like any sort of date at all.

[buran]

the last one not really looking like any sort of date at all.

it is YYYYMMDD, or using format string %Y%m%d

[Whisper40]

the last one not really looking like any sort of date at all.

it is YYYYMMDD, or using format string %Y%m%d

Yes it's that YYYYMMDD