sorting a list of dictionary values by date in python

Question

I have a list and I am appending a dictionary to it as I loop through my data...and I would like to sort by one of the dictionary keys.

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Answer 1

Sort the data (or a copy of the data) directly and build the list of dicts afterwards. Sort using the function sorted with an appropiate key function (operator.attrgetter probably)