Sort dict and save as dict

Question

So i have dictionary like this

   mydic={
    'a':3,
    'b':1,
    'c':2,}
    def sortedby():
        sort= (sorted(mydic.items(), key = lambda t : t[0]))


        return(sort)
    print(sortedby())

I would like to get it returned not as list or int but as dictionary

Uh... what would be the point of sorting it and then putting it back into the same arbitrarily-ordered container? — TigerhawkT3, Nov 02 '16 at 10:13
Dictionaries are *unordered*. Are you looking for the `OrderedDict` type instead perhaps? — Martijn Pieters, Nov 02 '16 at 10:14
i get inputdata that i need to sort from highest but i dont need value of it but index,key. — bozz, Nov 02 '16 at 10:17
`from collections import OrderedDict ordered_dict = OrderedDict(sorted(d.items(), key=lambda t: t[0]))` — noob, Sep 30 '20 at 10:55

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 02 '16 at 10:15

Python's dict are not ordered. In order to maintain the order in the dict, you should use collections.OrderedDict:

from collections import OrderedDict

mydic = {
    'a':3,
    'b':1,
    'c':2,}
ordered_dict = OrderedDict(sorted(mydic.items(), key=lambda t: t[0]))
# Store dict as: OrderedDict([('a', 3), ('b', 1), ('c', 2)])
#                 Sorted        ^         ^         ^

Sort dict and save as dict

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