Sort list of dictionaries

[Charles Heizer]

Never mind, the light bulb finally went off. :-\

sortedlist = sorted(mylist , key=lambda elem: "%s %s" % ( elem['name'], (".".join([i.zfill(5) for i in elem['version'].split(".")])) ), reverse=True)

On Monday, March 2, 2015 at 10:40:30 AM UTC-8, Charles Heizer wrote:
> Sorry,
> 
> sortedlist = sorted(mylist , key=lambda elem: "%s %s" % (elem['name'], LooseVersion(elem['version'])), reverse=True)
> 
> This is what I was trying but LooseVersion() was not sorting version numbers like I thought it would. You will notice that Chrome version "40.0.2214.111" is higher than "40.0.2214.91" but in the end result it's not sorting it that way.
> 
> Thanks,
> Charlie
> 
> On Monday, March 2, 2015 at 10:32:40 AM UTC-8, Emile van Sebille wrote:
> > On 3/2/2015 10:17 AM, Charles Heizer wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I'm new to python and I'm trying to find the right way to solve this issue I have.
> > >
> > > I'm trying to sort this list by name and then by version numbers. The problem I'm having is that I can not get the version numbers sorted with the highest at the top or sorted properly.
> > >
> > > mylist = [{'name': u'com.google.earth', 'version': u'7.1.2.2041'},
> > > {'name': u'com.google.earth', 'version': u'7.1.2.2019'},
> > > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'40.0.2214.93'},
> > > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'40.0.2214.91'},
> > > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'40.0.2214.111'},
> > > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'39.0.2171.99'},
> > > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'39.0.2171.95'},
> > > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'39.0.2171.71'},
> > > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'38.0.2125.122'},
> > > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'38.0.2125.111'},
> > > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'38.0.2125.104'},
> > > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'38.0.2125.101'},
> > > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'37.0.2062.94'},
> > > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'37.0.2062.120'},
> > > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'36.0.1985.143'},
> > > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'36.0.1985.125'},
> > > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'35.0.1916.153'},
> > > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'35.0.1916.114'},
> > > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'34.0.1847.137'},
> > > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'34.0.1847.131'},
> > > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'34.0.1847.116'},
> > > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'33.0.1750.152'},
> > > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'33.0.1750.149'},
> > > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'33.0.1750.146'},
> > > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'32.0.1700.107'},
> > > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'31.0.1650.63'},
> > > {'name': u'com.google.Chrome', 'version': u'31.0.1650.57'}]
> > >
> > > sortedlist = sorted(mylist , key=lambda x, y: x['name'] LooseVersion(elem['version'])), reverse=True)
> > 
> > You'll need to fix LooseVersion or elem or both -- or show them so we 
> > can help.
> > 
> > Emile
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Charlie
> > >