Sort Dictionary by Values

Question

I have a dictionary of ints.

d = {'jjd':2,'ddf':1,'kik':3}

Its much longer then this though. I want to sort by values highest to lowest. But I really want the results returned in an array so I can iterate through it like so:

for x in results:
    print d[x]

this should print out: ['kik','jjd','ddf']

see post: https://www.pythoncentral.io/how-to-sort-python-dictionaries-by-key-or-value/ — Jessica, Dec 20 '18 at 18:34

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 20 '18 at 18:34

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You can do the following collect the keys of the dicts items, sorted by descending value:

results = [k for k, v in sorted(d.items(), key=lambda i: i[1], reverse=True)]
# ['kik', 'jjd', 'ddf']

answered Dec 20 '18 at 18:34

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