Sort table rows in Python
Python interview exercise on Practical, difficulty 2 of 3. Solve it in the editor beside a worked example; the tests run the moment you do.
Write sort_rows(rows, key, descending=False) that returns a new list of the row dicts sorted by the given field. Numbers sort as numbers. The input list stays as it was.
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