In List of Dicts, find min() value of a common Dict field

Question

I have a list of dictionaries like so:

[{\'price\': 99, \'barcode\': \'2342355\'}, {\'price\': 88, \'barcode\': \'2345566\'}]

I want to fin

Answer 1

One answer would be mapping your dicts to the value of interest inside a generator expression, and then applying the built-ins min and max.

myMax = max(d['price'] for d in myList)
myMin = min(d['price'] for d in myList)