Script to open and sort JSON file by Key "name" value. Save to new JSON file with sorted_ prefix

sort_json.py

# Script to sort json file by Key "name" value
import json
from pathlib import Path


def write_json(data, filename):
    """Write new JSON file

    Args:
        data (dict): Dict data to write to JSON file
    """
    with open("sorted_" + filename, 'w') as jfile:
        json.dump(data, jfile)
    return


def open_json(*filename):
    """Open JSON file and sort by key name value

    Args:
        filename (Path): pathlib Path file name string
    """
    for file in filename:
        with open(file, 'r') as jfile:
            data = json.load(jfile)
        sorted_data = sorted(data, key=lambda k: k["name"])
        write_json(sorted_data, file.name)
    return


data_folder = Path("YOUR JSON FILES FOLDER")

j_files = [files for files in Path(data_folder).iterdir()
           if files.suffix == ".json"
           and files.name != 'error log.json']

open_json(*j_files)