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Aditya Kulkarni
Aditya Kulkarni

Reputation: 94

How do i sort the following list of dictonaries?

A single dictionary consists of 3 key:value pairs and I need to sort the dictionaries by comparing the first key, if the value is same the compare the second key and so on, how do I do it?

For example , if the list of dictionaries is as follows:

lst = [{'a':10,'b':20,'c':30},{'a':20,'b':50,'c':30},{'a':20,'b':40,'c':10},{'a':20,'b':40,'c':30}]

After sorting, result must be as follows:

[{'a':20,'b':50,'c':30},{'a':20,'b':40,'c':30},{'a':20,'b':40,'c':10},{'a':10,'b':20,'c':30}]

Here we can see, in the original list value of key 'a' of last 3 dictionaries was same, therefore we compared the 'b' key of them and sorted them accordingly, but 'b' key of last 2 dictionaries was same therefore we compared the 'c' key and applied the sort.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 50

Answers (1)

yatu
yatu

Reputation: 88305

You could use sorted, taking the dictionary's values in the key function, that way the sorting will take place according to all values in each dictionary:

sorted(lst, key=lambda x: list(x.values()), reverse=True)

[{'a': 20, 'b': 50, 'c': 30},
 {'a': 20, 'b': 40, 'c': 30},
 {'a': 20, 'b': 40, 'c': 10},
 {'a': 10, 'b': 20, 'c': 30}]

Upvotes: 2

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