Sort Dictionary of Dictionaries on multiple child dictionary values

Question

I have a dictionary that looks like this:

myDict = {
    \'SER12346\': {\'serial_num\': \'SER12346\', \'site_location\': \'North America\'},
    \'ABC12345\'         


        

Answer 1

Is this what you wanted?

dicts = [{k: v} for (k,v) in myDict.items()]
dicts.sort(key=lambda d: (d.values()[0]['site_location'], d.values()[0]['serial_num'],))

Output for doing:

import pprint
pprint.pprint(dicts)

is:

[{'ABC12346': {'serial_num': 'ABC12346', 'site_location': 'Europe'}},
 {'SER12345': {'serial_num': 'SER12345', 'site_location': 'North America'}},
 {'SER12346': {'serial_num': 'SER12346', 'site_location': 'North America'}},
 {'ABC12345': {'serial_num': 'ABC12345', 'site_location': 'South America'}},
 {'SER12347': {'serial_num': 'SER12347', 'site_location': 'South America'}}]

EDIT: I was going on your answer for the output format, but this would probably make more sense:

dicts = myDict.items()
dicts.sort(key=lambda (k,d): (d['site_location'], d['serial_num'],))

Output:

[('ABC12346', {'serial_num': 'ABC12346', 'site_location': 'Europe'}),
 ('SER12345', {'serial_num': 'SER12345', 'site_location': 'North America'}),
 ('SER12346', {'serial_num': 'SER12346', 'site_location': 'North America'}),
 ('ABC12345', {'serial_num': 'ABC12345', 'site_location': 'South America'}),
 ('SER12347', {'serial_num': 'SER12347', 'site_location': 'South America'})]