[Tutor] sorting by values in dict

[Paul Tremblay]

Is there a way to sort a dictionary by values?

My problem involves a simple script that sorts files by size.

I make dictionary that looks like this:

{'file1': 10000,
'file2'	: 10000,
file3'	: 5000,
}

I simply can't switch values and keys and sort by keys, because files
might have the same size. For example, if I simply switched values and
keys in the above dictionary, I would get:

{10000 : 'file1',
5000   : 'file3',
}

Obviously, I can sort the values like this:

values = the_dict.values()
values.sort()

But I need to know which value is associated with each key.

There is probably a very easy answer to this. My python book doesn't
mention it.

thanks

Paul


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