Sorting a set works, sorting a dictionary fails ?

[Fábio Santos]

On 10 Jun 2013 10:53, "Νικόλαος Κούρας" <nikos.gr33k at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> After many tried this did the job:
>
> for key in sorted(months.items(),key=lambda num : num[1]):
>         print('''
>                 <option value="%s"> %s </option>
>         ''' % (key[1], key[0]) )
>
>
> but its really frustrating not being able to:
>
> for key in sorted( months.values() ):
>         print('''
>                 <option value="%s"> %s </option>
>         ''' % (months[key], key) )
>
> Which seemed to be an abivous way to do it.
> names set() was able to order like this why not the dictionary too?

Why not

for key, value in sorted(d.items()):

Tuples are totally sortable.
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