Sorting a dictionary (with date keys) in Python

Question

I have a dictionary. The keys are dates (datetime). I need to sort the dictionary so that the values in the dictionary are sorted by date - so that by iterating through the

Answer 1

since your date strings seem to be in a proper format you could just do:

>>> sorted(mydict.items())         # iteritems in py2k
[('2000-01-01', {'fld_2': 42, 'fld_1': 1}), ('2000-01-02', {'fld_2': 22.17, 'fld_1': 23})]