python中怎么对json数组按json的某个字段进行排序

Question

我有一个json数组，我想对数组以json中的某个字段排序，这个如何做到？
比如：

json_array=[{"time":"20150312","value":"c"}，        
{"time":"20150301","value":"a"},
{"time":"20150305","value":"b"}]

python是否提供相应api方法对以上数组的“time”字段按升序排列,最后数组的结果是：

json_array=[{"time":"20150301","value":"a"},
{"time":"20150305","value":"b"},
{"time":"20150312","value":"c"}]

Answer 1

还有种更优雅直观的方法，一行就可以搞定：

json_array = [{"time":20150312,"value":"c"}, {"time":20150301,"value":"a"}, {"time":20150305,"value":"b"}]

json_array.sort(key = lambda x:x["time"])

运行结果：

print(json_array)
[{'value': 'a', 'time': 20150301}, {'value': 'b', 'time': 20150305}, {'value': 'c', 'time': 20150312}]

Answer 2

首先题目中有个错误："time":"201503012"应该是:"time":"20150312。
另外按照时间排序的话，我经常这样写：

from datetime import datetime
def my_cmp(a,b):
    a_time = datetime.strptime(a,'%Y%m%d')
    b_time = datetime.strptime(b,'%Y%m%d')
    return 1 if a > b  else -1 if a < b else 0
json_array=[{"time":"20150312","value":"c"},        
{"time":"20150301","value":"a"},
{"time":"20150305","value":"b"}]

print sorted(json_array, cmp=my_cmp, key=lambda x:x['time'])