Thanks for the answers. My goal was to try to avoid hard coding
and add a little shine to the code I have inherited. But its
too far gone already and time is short. So have used Mike's answer.
Mike answer with minor changes:
import datetime
import pprint
import operator
import time
entries = [{'name': 'ZZ2', 'username': 'ZZ3', 'date':
datetime.datetime (2007, 9, 30, 16, 43, 54)},{'name': 'ZZ2',
'username': 'ZZ5','date': datetime.datetime(2008, 9, 30, 16, 43,
54)},{'name': 'ZZ3', 'username': 'ZZ1', 'date':
datetime.datetime(2007, 9, 30, 16, 43, 54)}, {'name': 'AA2',
'username': 'AA2','date': datetime.datetime(2007, 9, 30, 16, 43,
54)}]
entries.sort(key = lambda x: (x['name'], -time.mktime(x
['date'].timetuple()) ))
pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(depth=2)
pp.pprint(entries)
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