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请注意，这也适用于数字。

I have an array of datetime objects, and I would like to find which element in the array is the closest to a given date (e.g datetime.datetime(2014,12,16))

This post shows how to find the nearest date which is not before the given date. How can I alter this code so that it can return dates that are before a given date?

For example, if the array housed elements datetime.datetime(2014,12,10) and datetime.datetime(2014,12,28), the former item should be returned because it is closest to datetime.datetime(2014,12,16) in absolute value.

def nearest(items, pivot):
    return min(items, key=lambda x: abs(x - pivot))

Note that this will work for numbers too.