About Sorting a List of Model Instances with Attrgetter

Use operator.attrgetter to sort a list of model instances by one or more fields, for example:

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from operator import attrgetter

for user in sorted(
    users, 
    key=attrgetter("last_name", "first_name")
):
    print(user.get_full_name())

Note that this option doesn't work if your fields are nullable. And whenever possible, you should instead do the sorting at the database level, that is, QuerySets.

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