How do I sort this list in Python, if my date is in a String?

Question

[{\'date\': \'2010-04-01\', \'people\': 1047, \'hits\': 4522}, {\'date\': \'2010-04-03\', \'people\': 617, \'hits\': 2582}, {\'date\': \'2010-04-02\', \'people\': 73         


        

Answer 1

Fortunately, ISO format dates, which seems to be what you have here, sort perfectly well as strings! So you need nothing fancy:

import operator
yourlistofdicts.sort(key=operator.itemgetter('date'))