how to sort dictionarty python sorted code example

Example 1: sort dictionary

#for dictionary d
sorted(d.items(), key=lambda x: x[1]) #for inceasing order
sorted(d.items(), key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=True) # for decreasing order
#it will return list of key value pair tuples

Example 2: sort a dictionary

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