> > > On Wednesday, August 29, 2018 at 11:20:26 AM UTC+5:30, John Ladasky wrote: > >> The top-level object you are showing is a list [], not a dictionary {}. > >> It has dictionaries inside of it though. Do you want to sort the list? > >> > >> Python's sorted() function returns a sorted copy of a sequence. Sorted() > >> has an optional argument called "key". Key accepts a second function > >> which can be used to rank each element in the event that you don't want > >> to compare them directly. > >> > >> The datetime module has functions which can convert the time strings you > >> are showing into objects which are ordered by time and are suitable as > >> keys for sorting. Look at datetime.datetime.strptime(). It takes two > >> arguments, the date/time string, and a second string describing the > >> format of the first string. There are many ways to format date and time > >> information as strings and none are standard. This function call seems > >> to work for your data: > >> > >> >>> datetime.strptime("04-08-2018 19:12", "%d-%m-%Y %H:%M") > >> datetime.datetime(2018, 8, 4, 19, 12) > >> > >> Hope that gets you started. > > > > > > > > > > i have tried but it was showing error like this.... > > TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'operator.itemgetter' > > and 'operator.itemgetter' > > Please remember to always provide the code you tried. That makes it easier > to point out the error. > > That said, here's a typical example of sorted and operator.itemgetter: > > >>> import operator > >>> data = [dict(foo=1, bar="second"), dict(foo=2, bar="first")] > >>> sorted(data, key=operator.itemgetter("foo")) > [{'bar': 'second', 'foo': 1}, {'bar': 'first', 'foo': 2}] > >>> sorted(data, key=operator.itemgetter("bar")) > [{'bar': 'first', 'foo': 2}, {'bar': 'second', 'foo': 1}]
sort = sorted(results, key=lambda res:itemgetter('date')) print(sort) I have tried the above code peter but it was showing error like .... TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'operator.itemgetter' and 'operator.itemgetter' Thanks -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list