How to sort over dictionaries

[harish at moonshots.co.in]

> 
> > On Wednesday, August 29, 2018 at 11:20:26 AM UTC+5:30, John Ladasky wrote:
> >> The top-level object you are showing is a list [], not a dictionary {}. 
> >> It has dictionaries inside of it though.  Do you want to sort the list?
> >> 
> >> Python's sorted() function returns a sorted copy of a sequence.  Sorted()
> >> has an optional argument called "key".  Key accepts a second function
> >> which can be used to rank each element in the event that you don't want
> >> to compare them directly.
> >> 
> >> The datetime module has functions which can convert the time strings you
> >> are showing into objects which are ordered by time and are suitable as
> >> keys for sorting.  Look at datetime.datetime.strptime().  It takes two
> >> arguments, the date/time string, and a second string describing the
> >> format of the first string.  There are many ways to format date and time
> >> information as strings and none are standard.  This function call seems
> >> to work for your data:
> >> 
> >> >>> datetime.strptime("04-08-2018 19:12", "%d-%m-%Y %H:%M")
> >> datetime.datetime(2018, 8, 4, 19, 12)
> >> 
> >> Hope that gets you started.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > i have tried but it was showing error like this....
> > TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'operator.itemgetter'
> > and 'operator.itemgetter'
> 
> Please remember to always provide the code you tried. That makes it easier 
> to point out the error.
> 
> That said, here's a typical example of sorted and operator.itemgetter:
> 
> >>> import operator
> >>> data = [dict(foo=1, bar="second"), dict(foo=2, bar="first")]
> >>> sorted(data, key=operator.itemgetter("foo"))
> [{'bar': 'second', 'foo': 1}, {'bar': 'first', 'foo': 2}]
> >>> sorted(data, key=operator.itemgetter("bar"))
> [{'bar': 'first', 'foo': 2}, {'bar': 'second', 'foo': 1}]




sort = sorted(results, key=lambda res:itemgetter('date'))
print(sort)


I have tried the above code peter but it was showing error like ....
TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'operator.itemgetter' and 'operator.itemgetter' 

Thanks