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Re: Sort list of dictionaries

From Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de>
Subject Re: Sort list of dictionaries
Date 2015-03-02 20:23 +0100
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Charles Heizer wrote:

> Never mind, the light bulb finally went off. :-\
> 
> sortedlist = sorted(mylist , key=lambda elem: "%s %s" % ( elem['name'],
> (".".join([i.zfill(5) for i in elem['version'].split(".")])) ),
> reverse=True)

This lightbulb will break with version numbers > 99999 ;)

Here are two alternatives:

result = sorted(
    mylist,
    key=lambda elem: (elem['name'], LooseVersion(elem['version'])),
    reverse=True)

result = sorted(
    mylist,
    key=lambda e: (e["name"], tuple(map(int, e["version"].split(".")))),
    reverse=True)


Personally, I prefer to not use a lambda:

def name_version(elem):
    return elem['name'], LooseVersion(elem['version'])
    
result = sorted(mylist, key=name_version, reverse=True)

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Sort list of dictionaries Charles Heizer <ceh329@gmail.com> - 2015-03-02 10:17 -0800
  Re: Sort list of dictionaries Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2015-03-02 10:31 -0800
    Re: Sort list of dictionaries Charles Heizer <ceh329@gmail.com> - 2015-03-02 10:38 -0800
      Re: Sort list of dictionaries Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-03-02 11:55 -0700
      Re: Sort list of dictionaries Charles Heizer <ceh329@gmail.com> - 2015-03-02 10:58 -0800
        Re: Sort list of dictionaries Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-03-02 20:23 +0100
          Re: Sort list of dictionaries Charles Heizer <ceh329@gmail.com> - 2015-03-03 07:56 -0800
            Re: Sort list of dictionaries Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-03-04 03:09 +1100
              Re: Sort list of dictionaries Paul  Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> - 2015-03-03 08:48 -0800
            Re: Sort list of dictionaries Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-03-03 18:44 +0100
      Re: Sort list of dictionaries Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-03-02 13:59 -0500
      Re: Sort list of dictionaries Jason Friedman <jsf80238@gmail.com> - 2015-03-02 22:33 -0700
      Re: Sort list of dictionaries Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-03-03 18:07 +1100
      Re: Sort list of dictionaries Jason Friedman <jsf80238@gmail.com> - 2015-03-03 07:45 -0700
      Re: Sort list of dictionaries Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-03-04 01:50 +1100
  Re: Sort list of dictionaries Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-03-03 18:55 +1100

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