Example 1: how to sort a dictionary by value in python
import operator
x = {1: 2, 3: 4, 4: 3, 2: 1, 0: 0}
sorted_x = sorted(x.items(), key=operator.itemgetter(1))
# Sort by key
import operator
x = {1: 2, 3: 4, 4: 3, 2: 1, 0: 0}
sorted_x = sorted(x.items(), key=operator.itemgetter(0))
Example 2: python sort list in reverse
#1 Changes list
list.sort(reverse=True)
#2 Returns sorted list
sorted(list, reverse=True)
Example 3: list sort by key python
>>> student_tuples = [
... ('john', 'A', 15),
... ('jane', 'B', 12),
... ('dave', 'B', 10),
... ]
>>> sorted(student_tuples, key=lambda student: student[2])
# sort by age
[('dave', 'B', 10), ('jane', 'B', 12), ('john', 'A', 15)]
Example 4: python sort dictionary by key
In [1]: import collections
In [2]: d = {2:3, 1:89, 4:5, 3:0}
In [3]: od = collections.OrderedDict(sorted(d.items()))
In [4]: od
Out[4]: OrderedDict([(1, 89), (2, 3), (3, 0), (4, 5)])
Example 5: sorted python
var = sorted(old_var)