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Discussion on: How to Sort a List of Dictionaries in Python

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dmitrypolo

itemgetter is faster than using lambda specifically because all the operations are performed on the C side. I should have clarified when I made my response. Thanks for the shoutout!

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Jeremy Grifski • Edited

Thanks for the clarification! I wasn't aware of that. The article has been updated to include a note about performance.