Dictionaries are basically hash maps and therefore are not ordered. You
can't preserve the order of the entries in a dict, indeed when you use sort
you are doing it on a list. There is something called ordered dictionary
that you can check out, otherwise you could use a list of tuples. I hope
it helps.
Il giorno martedì 11 dicembre 2018 21:07:52 UTC+1, yann19 ha scritto:
>
> I apologize in advance as this is not much of a Maya question but I am
> trying to convert this 'list' within nested dictionaries into a dictionary
> type.
>
> I had a function where it ingests in a nested dictionary and allows me to
> sort the contents by a specified value eg. name.
> This is a portion of it -
> return {k: {'entries': sorted([v1 for _,v1 in v['entries'].items()], key=
> lambda el: el['name'])} for k,v in dict_data.items()}
>
> However, possibly because I am using [] which returns me a list type.
>
> What I am expecting in the output is something as follow:
> {'my test':
> {
> 'entries': {
> 'name': 'running_slow_v001'
> ...
> },
> ...
> }
> }
>
> but I am getting:
> {'my test':
> {
> 'entries': [{
> 'name': 'running_slow_v001'
> ...
> }],
> ...
> }
> }
>
>
> I tried using `dict()` and tested the placement anywhere within the return
> sentence, it will returns me an error.
> Appreciate in advance for any replies.
>
>
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