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Sorting Lists of Dictionaries

Frequently you want to sort a list of dictionaries, based on some particular key.

For example:

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   1 a = { "key1":5, "key2":8, "key3":2 }
   2 b = { "key1":7, "key2":4, "key3":9 }
   3 c = { "key1":6, "key2":1, "key3":1 }
   4 l = [ a,b,c ] # how do you sort this list?

There are many ways to do this; Here's one way I've been doing it:

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   1 sort_key = "key2"
   2 l = [(d[sort_key],d) for d in l]
   3 l.sort()
   4 l = [d for (k,d) in l]

Questions

This a good way? -- LionKimbro

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