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

can also use this:

from operator import itemgetter

lst = [{'price': 99, 'barcode': '2342355'}, {'price': 88, 'barcode': '2345566'}]  
max(map(itemgetter('price'), lst))