Given a list of dictionaries, how can I eliminate duplicates of one key, and sort by another

Question

I\'m working with a list of dict objects that looks like this (the order of the objects differs):

[
    {\'name\': \'Foo\', \'score         


        

Answer 1

Just for fun, here is a purely functional approach:

>>> map(dict, dict(sorted(map(sorted, map(dict.items, s)))).items())
[{'score': 3, 'name': 'Bar'}, {'score': 2, 'name': 'Baz'}, {'score': 3, 'name': 'Foo'}]