Question

In my views I have a dict list such as

data = [{'name': 'Abe', 'seq': [4, 3]}, {'name': 'All names', 'seq': [9, 8]}, {'name': 'Mike', 'seq': [11, 2]}]

In my template I sorted them with:

{{ data|dictsort:"name" }}

I’d like to have {'name': 'All names', 'seq': [9, 8]} in the top of the list and keep the other sorted data items. How can I do this?

Answer 1

Do the sorting in the view, using a custom key function.

data.sort(key=lambda d: '0' if d['name'] == 'All names' else d['name'])