You can use the built-in method itemgetter() of operator module to sort a dictionary by key or value in Python as shown in the below example –
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import operator import collections dict = {"a": 5,"b": 4,"c": 3,"d": 2,"e": 1} ## Sort by value sklist = sorted(dict.items(), key=operator.itemgetter(1)) print(sklist) ## Returns [('e', 1), ('d', 2), ('c', 3), ('b', 4), ('a', 5)] ## Sort by key svlist = sorted(dict.items(), key=operator.itemgetter(0)) print(svlist) ## Returns [('a', 5), ('b', 4), ('c', 3), ('d', 2), ('e', 1)] ## Return as dictonary skdict = collections.OrderedDict(sklist) svdict = collections.OrderedDict(svlist) print(skdict) print(svdict) |