Sorting Json Dict By Value
How to sort a json Dict by the value of a key#
For example a list of domains:
domains = [
{'mkey': 'apple.co.za', 'is_association': True},
{'mkey': 'banana.org', 'is_association': True},
{'mkey': 'beans.com', 'is_association': True},
{'mkey': 'zulu.co.za', 'is_association': True},
{'mkey': 'maakebos.com', 'is_association': True},
{'mkey': 'thule.co.za', 'is_association': True},
{'mkey': 'pollock.com', 'is_association': True},
{'mkey': 'queen.co.za', 'is_association': True},
{'mkey': 'zebra.co.uk', 'is_association': True},
]
To sort the items by the mkey:
sorted_domains_atoz = sorted(
domains,
key = lambda i: i['mkey']
)
[{'mkey': 'apple.co.za', 'is_association': True},
{'mkey': 'banana.org', 'is_association': True},
{'mkey': 'beans.com', 'is_association': True},
{'mkey': 'maakebos.com', 'is_association': True},
{'mkey': 'pollock.com', 'is_association': True},
{'mkey': 'queen.co.za', 'is_association': True},
{'mkey': 'thule.co.za', 'is_association': True},
{'mkey': 'zebra.co.uk', 'is_association': True},
{'mkey': 'zulu.co.za', 'is_association': True}]
To sort the reverse order, use the reverse=True keyword argument
sorted_domains_ztoa = sorted(
domains,
key = lambda i: i['mkey'],
reverse=True
)
[{'mkey': 'zulu.co.za', 'is_association': True},
{'mkey': 'zebra.co.uk', 'is_association': True},
{'mkey': 'thule.co.za', 'is_association': True},
{'mkey': 'queen.co.za', 'is_association': True},
{'mkey': 'pollock.com', 'is_association': True},
{'mkey': 'maakebos.com', 'is_association': True},
{'mkey': 'beans.com', 'is_association': True},
{'mkey': 'banana.org', 'is_association': True},
{'mkey': 'apple.co.za', 'is_association': True}]