Sort objects of the same class that don’t natively support comparison operations using operator.attrgetter

attrgetter_sort.ipynb

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    "from operator import attrgetter"
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   "source": [
    "class Fruit:\n",
    "\n",
    "    def __init__(self, name, price):\n",
    "        self.name = name\n",
    "        self.price = price\n",
    "    def __repr__(self):\n",
    "        return f\"Fruit({self.name}, {self.price})\""
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   "source": [
    "fruits = [Fruit(\"pear\", 22), Fruit(\"apple\", 33), Fruit(\"apple\", 11), Fruit(\"banana\", 20)]"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 4,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
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       "[Fruit(apple, 11), Fruit(banana, 20), Fruit(pear, 22), Fruit(apple, 33)]"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 4,
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   "source": [
    "sorted(fruits, key=attrgetter(\"price\"))"
   ]
  },
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   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 5,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
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      ]
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   "source": [
    "sorted(fruits, key=attrgetter(\"name\"))"
   ]
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   "cell_type": "code",
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   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
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      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 6,
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    "sorted(fruits, key=attrgetter(\"name\", \"price\"))"
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   "cell_type": "code",
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      "1.64 µs ± 12.7 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000000 loops each)\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "%%timeit\n",
    "sorted(fruits, key=attrgetter(\"price\"))"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 8,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "1.98 µs ± 105 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000000 loops each)\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "%%timeit\n",
    "sorted(fruits, key=lambda fruit: fruit.price)"
   ]
  },
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   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": null,
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