sorting on keys in a list of dicts

[J Berends]

Suppose I have a list of dictionaries and each dict has a common keyname
with a (sortable) value in it.

How can I shuffle their position in the list in such way that they
become sorted.

Maybe I am doing it wrongly and you would say: why don't you get
yourself a (slimmed-down) implementation of a database class. But then
please guide me on the right path without having to install a xxSQL
server for my multiplatform code.

 

[Paul Rubin]

Suppose I have a list of dictionaries and each dict has a common
keyname with a (sortable) value in it.

How can I shuffle their position in the list in such way that they
become sorted.

Do I understand the question right? Can't you just say

thelist.sort(lambda x,y: cmp(x['keyname'], y['keyname']))

or something like that?