Sort dict by sub-value in Python
Question: I spent some time reading on SOF and am having issues solving this problem. I
cannot seem to find how to get the following data structure sorted by the sub-
value:

    
    
    data = {}
    data[1] = {name: "Bob", ...}
    data[2] = {name: "Carl", ...}
    data[3] = {nane: "Alice", ...}
    

I need to get this data into some form of a list/tuple/order dict structure
which is alphabetized so that the final result is something like this:

    
    
    finalData = [{name: "Alice", ...}, {name: "Bob", ...}, {name: "Carl", ...}]
    

Thanks.


Answer: Do you mean something like

    
    
    sorted(data.values(), key=itemgetter(name))
    

* * *
    
    
    >>> from operator import itemgetter
    >>> data = {}
    >>> name = 'name'
    >>> 
    >>> data[1] = {name: "Bob"}
    >>> data[2] = {name: "Carl"}
    >>> data[3] = {name: "Alice"}
    >>>
    >>> sorted(data.values(), key=itemgetter(name))
    [{'name': 'Alice'}, {'name': 'Bob'}, {'name': 'Carl'}]
    

