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Huxleyer98
Huxleyer98

Reputation: 13

How to sort a list of dictionaries by value when each key is different?

While searching for an answer to this question I found that many posts were either concerned more with ordering by keys of each dictionary in a list or the dictionaries within the lists had descriptions for each value like:
[{'name': 'john'}, {'name': 'sam'}] possibly making it easier to order each dictionary.

I have a list of dictionaries in the following format:

[{'Emma': 20}, {'Jake': 15}, {'John': 22}]

How can I order this list by each users age using sorted and lambda only (if possible)?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 85

Answers (1)

Olvin Roght
Olvin Roght

Reputation: 7812

You can use next() to get first of dict values:

source = [{'Emma': 20}, {'Jake': 15}, {'John': 22}]
sorted_source = sorted(source, key=lambda x: next(iter(x.values())))

Upvotes: 3

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