> Let's say you have a list of events. For each event, you know the year, month, and some other data. You want them sorted chronologically. Obviously you're not

> Let's say you have a list of events. For each event, you know the year, month, and some other data. You want them sorted chronologically. Obviously you're not going to code the sort by hand. Maybe you'd consider: Why wouldn't I just do myList.sort(key=lambda x: castToTimestamp(x)) ? Then I'm just sorting a list of integers/floats, which sounds like a solved problem.