sorting a list of dicts by a computed field

[jladasky at itu.edu]

On Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at 12:34:38 PM UTC-8, MRAB wrote:
> On 2017-01-31 20:26, Larry Martell wrote:

> The module 'datetime' contains a class called 'datetime'. Judging by 
> your exception, 'datetime' is the module.
> 
> Try "datetime.datetime.strptime" instead.

This re-use of the name "datetime" has tripped me up more than once.  It's one of my few grumbles with the Python standard library.