[Python] Simple pythonic way to check if a list of dict is a subset of another list of dict?

Is there a simple pythonic way to check if a list of dictionaries is a subset of another list of dictionaries? This can be done via a for loop by checking each item. I'm hoping there's a faster way with built-in methods.

i.e.

maybe_subset = [
{'Key': 'apple', 'Value': '1234'},
{'Key': 'orange', 'Value': '2431'},
{'Key': 'banana', 'Value': '9999'}
]

maybe_superset = [
{'Key': 'orange', 'Value': '2431'},
{'Key': 'banana', 'Value': '9999'},
{'Key': 'creator', 'Value': 'JOHNSMITH'},
{'Key': 'apple', 'Value': '1234'}
]

def subset(a,b):

something


so running subset(maybe_subset,maybe_superset) should return true

issubset doesn't work since it's a list of dict which is unhashable.

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