[Newbie] How to output dictionary sorted on content (not keys)

[Boudewijn Rempt]

<posted & mailed>

Alex Martelli wrote:

> So here's approach 2 in a clear, multistatement way:
> 
> auxdict = {}
> for name,count in myDict.iteritems():
>     auxdict.setdefault(count, []).append(name)
> for key in range(min(auxdict.keys()), max(auxdict.keys())+1):
>     for name in auxdict.get(key, []):
>         print key, name
> 

I really should read the documentation for each new release... I
had completely missed the arrival of 'setdefault'. Probably means
that I'm stuck in the 1.5.2 ages or something :-(.
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