Sorting array of dicts python?

Question

With the following

Code

arr = [{"name":"joe", "hotdogs":5},{"name":"april", "hotdogs":5},{"name":"ryan", "hot dogs":8}]

How to in python sort the elements of the array such as the dicts are sorted by name?

arr = [{"name":"april", "hotdogs":5},{"name":"joe", "hotdogs":5},{"name":"ryan", "hotdogs":8}]

How to apply some function to sort the dicts in the array?

Answer 1

Like this:

arr.sort(key=operator.itemgetter('name'))

Answer 2

Have a look at the following web page: http://wiki.python.org/moin/HowTo/Sorting/