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:

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Answer 1

I actually had this almost exact question yesterday and solved it using search. The best answer applied to your question is this:

from operator import itemgetter
list.sort(key=itemgetter('date'), reverse=True)