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Created April 26, 2018 15:00
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Sort a list of dictionaries by a certain key
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sortDictList.py
# Source: https://wiki.python.org/moin/SortingListsOfDictionaries
def sortDictList(arr, sort_key):
output = [(dict_[sort_key], dict_) for dict_ in arr]
output.sort()
return [dict_ for (key, dict_) in output]
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