有时我们需要使用lower（）进行不区分大小写的排序。例如

lists = [{'name':'Homer', 'age':39},
  {'name':'Bart', 'age':10},
  {'name':'abby', 'age':9}]

lists = sorted(lists, key=lambda k: k['name'])
print(lists)
# Bart, Homer, abby
# [{'name':'Bart', 'age':10}, {'name':'Homer', 'age':39}, {'name':'abby', 'age':9}]

lists = sorted(lists, key=lambda k: k['name'].lower())
print(lists)
# abby, Bart, Homer
# [ {'name':'abby', 'age':9}, {'name':'Bart', 'age':10}, {'name':'Homer', 'age':39}]

您必须实现自己的比较函数，该函数将通过名称键的值来比较字典。参见PythonInfo Wiki中的排序迷你如何

使用Pandas包是另一种方法，尽管其大规模运行时比其他人提出的更传统的方法慢得多：

import pandas as pd

listOfDicts = [{'name':'Homer', 'age':39}, {'name':'Bart', 'age':10}]
df = pd.DataFrame(listOfDicts)
df = df.sort_values('name')
sorted_listOfDicts = df.T.to_dict().values()

下面是一个小列表和一个大（100k+）的字典列表的一些基准值：

setup_large = "listOfDicts = [];\
[listOfDicts.extend(({'name':'Homer', 'age':39}, {'name':'Bart', 'age':10})) for _ in range(50000)];\
from operator import itemgetter;import pandas as pd;\
df = pd.DataFrame(listOfDicts);"

setup_small = "listOfDicts = [];\
listOfDicts.extend(({'name':'Homer', 'age':39}, {'name':'Bart', 'age':10}));\
from operator import itemgetter;import pandas as pd;\
df = pd.DataFrame(listOfDicts);"

method1 = "newlist = sorted(listOfDicts, key=lambda k: k['name'])"
method2 = "newlist = sorted(listOfDicts, key=itemgetter('name')) "
method3 = "df = df.sort_values('name');\
sorted_listOfDicts = df.T.to_dict().values()"

import timeit
t = timeit.Timer(method1, setup_small)
print('Small Method LC: ' + str(t.timeit(100)))
t = timeit.Timer(method2, setup_small)
print('Small Method LC2: ' + str(t.timeit(100)))
t = timeit.Timer(method3, setup_small)
print('Small Method Pandas: ' + str(t.timeit(100)))

t = timeit.Timer(method1, setup_large)
print('Large Method LC: ' + str(t.timeit(100)))
t = timeit.Timer(method2, setup_large)
print('Large Method LC2: ' + str(t.timeit(100)))
t = timeit.Timer(method3, setup_large)
print('Large Method Pandas: ' + str(t.timeit(1)))

#Small Method LC: 0.000163078308105
#Small Method LC2: 0.000134944915771
#Small Method Pandas: 0.0712950229645
#Large Method LC: 0.0321750640869
#Large Method LC2: 0.0206089019775
#Large Method Pandas: 5.81405615807

按多个列排序，其中一些列按降序排序：cmps数组是cmp函数的全局数组，包含字段名，对于desc，inv==-1，对于asc

def cmpfun(a, b):
    for (name, inv) in cmps:
        res = cmp(a[name], b[name])
        if res != 0:
            return res * inv
    return 0

data = [
    dict(name='alice', age=10), 
    dict(name='baruch', age=9), 
    dict(name='alice', age=11),
]

all_cmps = [
    [('name', 1), ('age', -1)], 
    [('name', 1), ('age', 1)], 
    [('name', -1), ('age', 1)],]

print 'data:', data
for cmps in all_cmps: print 'sort:', cmps; print sorted(data, cmpfun)

您可以使用以下选项：

lst = [{'name': 'Homer', 'age': 39}, {'name': 'Bart', 'age': 10}]
sorted_lst = sorted(lst, key=lambda x: x['age']) # change this to sort by a different field
print(sorted_lst)

我猜你的意思是：

[{'name':'Homer', 'age':39}, {'name':'Bart', 'age':10}]

其排序如下：

sorted(l,cmp=lambda x,y: cmp(x['name'],y['name']))