If the strucutre of data is:

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d1={'name':'zhangsan','age':20,'country':'China'}
d2={'name':'wangwu','age':19,'country':'USA'}
d3={'name':'lisi','age':22,'country':'JP'}
d4={'name':'zhaoliu','age':22,'country':'USA'}
d5={'name':'pengqi','age':22,'country':'USA'}
d6={'name':'lijiu','age':22,'country':'China'}
lst = [d1, d2, d3, d4, d5, d6]

how to group by country item and get the result:

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{'JP': [{'country': 'JP', 'age': 22, 'name': 'lisi'}], 'China': [{'country': 'China', 'age': 20, 'name': 'zhangsan'}, {'country': 'China', 'age': 22, 'name': 'lijiu'}], 'USA': [{'country': 'USA', 'age': 19, 'name': 'wangwu'}, {'country': 'USA', 'age': 22, 'name': 'zhaoliu'}, {'country': 'USA', 'age': 22, 'name': 'pengqi'}]}

or

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[('China', [{'country': 'China', 'age': 20, 'name': 'zhangsan'}, {'country': 'China', 'age': 22, 'name': 'lijiu'}]), ('JP', [{'country': 'JP', 'age': 22, 'name': 'lisi'}]), ('USA', [{'country': 'USA', 'age': 19, 'name': 'wangwu'}, {'country': 'USA', 'age': 22, 'name': 'zhaoliu'}, {'country': 'USA', 'age': 22, 'name': 'pengqi'}])]

the coding is following:

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from operator import itemgetter
from itertools import groupby

lst.sort(key=itemgetter('country'))
lstg = groupby(lst, itemgetter('country'))

itemgettet('country') is same as lambda x: x['country']

then we can get what we wanted.

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for key, group in lstg:
	for g in group:  # group is a iter
		print(key, g)

return:

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China {'country': 'China', 'age': 20, 'name': 'zhangsan'}
China {'country': 'China', 'age': 22, 'name': 'lijiu'}
JP {'country': 'JP', 'age': 22, 'name': 'lisi'}
USA {'country': 'USA', 'age': 19, 'name': 'wangwu'}
USA {'country': 'USA', 'age': 22, 'name': 'zhaoliu'}
USA {'country': 'USA', 'age': 22, 'name': 'pengqi'}

key is a grouped the key.

Get the list which include dict the key is country:

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[(key, list(group)) for key, group in lstg]

return:

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[('China', [{'country': 'China', 'age': 20, 'name': 'zhangsan'}, {'country': 'China', 'age': 22, 'name': 'lijiu'}]), ('JP', [{'country': 'JP', 'age': 22, 'name': 'lisi'}]), ('USA', [{'country': 'USA', 'age': 19, 'name': 'wangwu'}, {'country': 'USA', 'age': 22, 'name': 'zhaoliu'}, {'country': 'USA', 'age': 22, 'name': 'pengqi'}])]

Get the dict which key is country:

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dict([(key, list(group)) for key, group in lstg])

return:

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{'JP': [{'country': 'JP', 'age': 22, 'name': 'lisi'}], 'China': [{'country': 'China', 'age': 20, 'name': 'zhangsan'}, {'country': 'China', 'age': 22, 'name': 'lijiu'}], 'USA': [{'country': 'USA', 'age': 19, 'name': 'wangwu'}, {'country': 'USA', 'age': 22, 'name': 'zhaoliu'}, {'country': 'USA', 'age': 22, 'name': 'pengqi'}]}

Get the numbers of every group:

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dict([(key, len(list(group))) for key,group in lstg])

return:

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{'JP': 1, 'China': 2, 'USA': 3}