Group by multiple keys and summarize/average values of a list of dictionaries

Question

What is the most pythonic way to group by multiple keys and summarize/average values of a list of dictionaries in Python please? Say I have a list of dictionaries as below:<

Answer 1

Inspired by Eelco Hoogendoorn's answer. Here is another way to resolve this using Pandas package. The code is more readable.

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

def sum_by_cusip_and_dept(data):
    df = pd.DataFrame(data)
    grouped = df.groupby(['sku', 'dept'])    
    sum = grouped.sum()
    return [{'sku': r[0], 'dept': r[1], 'qty': kv.to_dict().get('qty')} for r, kv in sum.iterrows()]