Best way to sort 1M records in Python

Question

I have a service that runs that takes a list of about 1,000,000 dictionaries and does the following

myHashTable = {}
myLists = { \'hits\':{}, \'misses\':{},          


        

Answer 1

If you have a fixed number of fields, use tuples instead of dictionaries. Place the field you want to sort on in first position, and just use mylist.sort()