Django - Sort a list by related fields

My models:

Item:
    name
    desc

Type:
    name

Value:
    item.ForeignKey(Item)
    type.ForeignKey(Type)
    val.CharField # varchar or numeric

Now I have an objects list of items but not a QuerySet, for instance: items = [<object:1>, <object:2>, <object:4>]. And t = 5 is an id of a row from Type.

I want to sort this list by 开发者_运维知识库val of table Value and type of value is t. Any idea?

Thanks alot!

UPDATE:

- I've added a new condition.

You can always use lambda function to sort the list of items (assuming there is a one to one relationship between Item and Value model, otherwise I don't think the question makes sense)

 items.sort(key=lambda object: object.value_set.all()[0].val)

Although the point to be noted is that the sorting will be in memory.

For Updated Question

Just adding a filter should do the task

 items.sort(key=lambda object: object.value_set.filter(type__id=5)[0].val)

Check Key Functions in this sort tutorial that I found in python docs

sorted(items.objects.all(), key=lambda item: item.value_set.get().val if item.value_set.all() else None)

should do it in case your foreign key isn't set for some items.