Sort dict values to decending order in Python

Question

I have a dictionary like this.

d = {'"mn': '800"', '"kl': '700"', '"ng': '1100"'}

How to sort this into descending order. like below

ng,1100

mn,800

kl,700

As an aside, where did that dictionary come from? There are quotation marks on the left of each key, and on the right of each value, which makes it feel like the source was parsed incorrectly. — DSM, May 01 '14 at 14:09

fatiherdem · Answer 1 · 2014-08-07T08:50:48.613

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You can user OrderedDict for that.

reverse_dictionary = OrderedDict(reversed(sorted(d.items())), key=lambda t: t[1])

edited Aug 07 '14 at 08:50

answered May 01 '14 at 14:44

fatiherdem

Can you share the code. – molakalapalli ramesh May 01 '14 at 15:38
reverse_dictionary = OrderedDict(reversed(sorted(d.items())), key=lambda t: t[1]) – fatiherdem May 01 '14 at 15:51

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 01 '14 at 14:06

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Im not sure what you mean, a dictionary by definition is unsorted. you may want to use an array of dictionaries.

answered May 01 '14 at 14:06

Yoav Schwartz

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