On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:31:22 +0100, J Berends <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Suppose I have a list of dictionaries and each dict has a common keyname > with a (sortable) value in it. > > How can I shuffle their position in the list in such way that they > become sorted. >
In Python 2.4,
import operator
L.sort(key=operator.itemgetter(key))
In Python 2.3,
L2 = [(d[key], i, d) for (i, d) in enumerate(L)]
L2.sort()
L = [d for (v, i, d) in L2]
Jp
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