sorting a list of dictionary values by date in python

Question

I have a list and I am appending a dictionary to it as I loop through my data...and I would like to sort by one of the dictionary keys.

ex:

data = \         


        

Answer 1

If you're into the whole brevity thing:

data = "data from database"
sorted_data = sorted(
    [{'title': x.title, 'date': x.created_on} for x in data], 
    key=operator.itemgetter('date'),
    reverse=True)