Use dateutil's relativedelta to sort an arbitrary list of Django objects by date

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"""
Given a list of objects with date_time attributes
 that return a datetime, this sorts them in ascending 
order.  It requires the dateutil package from
 http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/python-dateutil"""

from dateutil.relativedelta import *

shows.sort(cmp=lambda x,y:relativedelta(x.date_time,y.date_time).minutes)

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