https://wiki.python.org/moin/SortingListsOfDictionaries
def multikeysort(items, columns):
from operator import itemgetter
comparers = [ ((itemgetter(col[1:].strip()), -1) if col.startswith('-') else (itemgetter(col.strip()), 1)) for col in columns]
def comparer(left, right):
for fn, mult in comparers:
result = cmp(fn(left), fn(right))
if result:
return mult * result
else:
return 0
return sorted(items, cmp=comparer)