Sorting distionary by value

[Duncan Booth]

Artur Skura <arturs at iidea.pl> wrote in 
news:slrna9lqj1.9n1.arturs at aph.waw.pdi.net:
> Is there an idiom in Python as to sorting dictionary by value,
> not keys? I came up with some solutions which are so inefficient
> that I'm sure there must be a simple way.
How do you know they are inefficient? Have you profiled your application 
and found this to be a bottleneck?

Anyway, the idiomatic way to sort a dictionary by value, when the key 
doesn't have to be saved:

values = myDictionary.values()
values.sort()

Or, if you want both keys and values:

items = [ (myDictionary[k], k) for k in myDictionary ]
items.sort()
items = [ (k, v) for (v, k) in items ]


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Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
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