I want to sort a list of dictionaries. The problem is that key in the dictionaries are not same, but every dictionary will have only one item for sure. For example, [{‘foo’:39}, {‘bar’:7}, {‘spam’:35}, {‘buzz’:4}] Here, key is the name of the person and value is…
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Sorting list by the inner elements in Python?
How that list can be sorted by the inner list elements? I need a list at the final like that; It will check the first elements of the inner lists, if there are more than one “True”, it will check and sort the second elements. If there are the same numbers, than it will check the third elements. An…
How to get a list of dictionaries sorted by three criteria
I want to get a list sorted accordingly to the following rules persons.sort(key = lambda p: (abs(p[“height”] – 180), p[“weight”]==75, p[“weight”])) i.e. I need it to get sorted firstly by its closeness to the height 180, then all of the weight values which are equal t…
Key Error even though key IS in dictionary? [closed]
Closed. This question needs debugging details. It is not currently accepting answers. Edit the question to include desired behavior, a specific problem or error, and the shortest code necessary to reproduce the problem. This will help others answer the question. Closed 1 year ago. Improve this question Dictio…
sorting in pandas, while alternating between ascending and descending on the same sorting column
I would like to sort a dataframe by a two columns, but one is always ascending, and the other switches between ascending and descending based on the value of the first column. In other words, when the first column increases, the sorting flips from ascending to descending or vise versa. My motivation for this …
Can this algorithm be called insertion sort or is it some other algorithm?
I was curious that can this way of sorting be called insertion sort, there are a few differences between my code and the original implementation. In insertion sort, we pick the keys from the virtually ‘unsorted’ sub-array and compare it to the left subarray that is sorted. My code doesn’t do…
Implementing Insertion sort in Python
I am trying to write the insertion sort algorithm ( without the help of the solution in the book) and so far came up with this algorithm, when I matched it with the solution, it looks different. This is the code I wrote: Is this code still valid as an insertion sort? Algo in the book: Answer Looks like a
How to custom sort a string list of deck of cards?
I am making a card game in python, consisting of 3 bots and a player. The deck of 52 cards is randomly distributed and stored in 4 separate lists of 13 cards each. Here, H5 stands for 5 of hearts, DJ as Joker of Diamonds, SA as Ace of Spades and so on. But, I want to sort these lists
Sort a list by value of a dict python
I need some help, how to use the algorithm selection sort to sort a list by the values of a dict. I wrote some code but I don’t know how continue, that the code work. e.g. sort the list by the values of the dict Answer New Answer Create class selection_sort which has get_sorted() method that will sort t…
Sort a tuple with n elements based on a list with x elements
I have a tuple as given below I want to sort this tuple based on this list The sample of the expected output is given below I tried the following solution given at here to sort a tuple based on list. But it doesnt give the desired outcome. I tried using explicit loop but it doesnt work. Any help is