Sort Dictionary of Dictionaries on multiple child dictionary values

Question

I have a dictionary that looks like this:

myDict = {
    \'SER12346\': {\'serial_num\': \'SER12346\', \'site_location\': \'North America\'},
    \'ABC12345\'         


        

Answer 1

>>> import pprint
>>> dic=myDict.items()
>>> dic.sort(key=lambda x:(x[1]['site_location'],x[1]['serial_num']))
>>> pprint.pprint([{k:v} for k,v in dic])
[{'ABC12346': {'serial_num': 'ABC12346', 'site_location': 'Europe'}},
 {'SER12345': {'serial_num': 'SER12345', 'site_location': 'North America'}},
 {'SER12346': {'serial_num': 'SER12346', 'site_location': 'North America'}},
 {'ABC12345': {'serial_num': 'ABC12345', 'site_location': 'South America'}},
 {'SER12347': {'serial_num': 'SER12347', 'site_location': 'South America'}}]