Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.redatomik.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.008 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.98; '*S*': 0.00; 'properly.': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; '10:17': 0.16; 'charles': 0.16; 'elem': 0.16; 'looseversion': 0.16; 'mylist': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'subject:Sort': 0.16; 'subject:dictionaries': 0.16; 'fix': 0.17; 'thanks,': 0.17; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'trying': 0.19; 'help.': 0.21; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.23; 'skip:l 30': 0.24; 'sort': 0.25; 'header:X -Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'am,': 0.29; 'subject:list': 0.30; "i'm": 0.30; 'problem': 0.35; 'skip:u 20': 0.35; 'version': 0.36; 'list': 0.37; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'issue': 0.38; 'highest': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'skip:u 10': 0.60; 'solve': 0.60; 'new': 0.61; 'numbers': 0.61; "you'll": 0.62; 'show': 0.63; 'name': 0.63; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.65; 'received:12': 0.81; 'have.': 0.93 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Emile van Sebille Subject: Re: Sort list of dictionaries Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 10:31:59 -0800 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: www.westernstatesglass.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.19 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 49 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1425321135 news.xs4all.nl 2836 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:56252 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:86767 On 3/2/2015 10:17 AM, Charles Heizer wrote: > Hello, > I'm new to python and I'm trying to find the right way to solve this issue I have. > > I'm trying to sort this list by name and then by version numbers. The problem I'm having is that I can not get the version numbers sorted with the highest at the top or sorted properly. > > mylist = [{'name': u'com.google.earth', 'version': u'7.1.2.2041'}, > {'name': u'com.google.earth', 'version': u'7.1.2.2019'}, > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'40.0.2214.93'}, > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'40.0.2214.91'}, > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'40.0.2214.111'}, > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'39.0.2171.99'}, > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'39.0.2171.95'}, > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'39.0.2171.71'}, > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'38.0.2125.122'}, > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'38.0.2125.111'}, > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'38.0.2125.104'}, > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'38.0.2125.101'}, > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'37.0.2062.94'}, > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'37.0.2062.120'}, > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'36.0.1985.143'}, > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'36.0.1985.125'}, > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'35.0.1916.153'}, > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'35.0.1916.114'}, > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'34.0.1847.137'}, > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'34.0.1847.131'}, > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'34.0.1847.116'}, > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'33.0.1750.152'}, > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'33.0.1750.149'}, > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'33.0.1750.146'}, > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'32.0.1700.107'}, > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'31.0.1650.63'}, > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'31.0.1650.57'}] > > sortedlist = sorted(mylist , key=lambda x, y: x['name'] LooseVersion(elem['version'])), reverse=True) You'll need to fix LooseVersion or elem or both -- or show them so we can help. Emile > > Thanks, > Charlie >