How to sort dictionary in Python?

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Vishal Sharma 2.52K October 2, 2019 0 Comments

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Can you help me to sort dict in the given order:

d = {1:5,2:6,3:1,4:3,5:23}

now sorted dictionary should be sorted by values such as given below:

d = { 3:1,4:3,1:5,2:6,5:23}

I want to sort the list according to their value retaining its key value.

How can I do this in Python?

Vishal Sharma · Answer 1 · 2019-10-02T09:37:10+00:00

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Dictionary cannot be sorted, You can make new sorted list from it in Python.

Here , I have find one useful method to solve this problem:

You can use below method to sort dictionary according to its values in Python.

sorted(d.values())

You can generate the list of sorted (key,value) of given dictionary using given method:

from operator import itemgetter
sorted(d.items(), key=itemgetter(1))

store the sorted pair in new list:

from operator import itemgetter
e = sorted(d.item() ,key = itemgetter(1))
print(e)

Output:

[(3,1),(4,3),(1,5),(2,6),(5,23)]

This solution has solved my problem.