python什么时候用列表什么时候用字典-python对列表中的字典按[key]时间排序

#coding:utf-8

"""

author：the5fire

date:2012-10-10

function:

sort dict list by key

"""

importdatetime

result_data =[]

result_data.append({

"id": 2,

"create_time": "2012-10-8 11:09:22",

})

result_data.append({

"id": 3,

"create_time": "2012-10-10 11:09:22",

})

result_data.append({

"id": 1,

"create_time": "2012-10-1 11:09:22",

})

def cmp_datetime(a, b):

a_datetime =datetime.datetime.strptime(a,"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

b_datetime =datetime.datetime.strptime(b,"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

if a_datetime > b_datetime:

return -1

elif a_datetime < b_datetime:

return1

else:

return0

importoperator

print"before",result_data

result_data.sort(cmp=cmp_datetime, key=operator.itemgetter("create_time"))

print"after",result_data