Newbie problem

[Paul Simmonds]

>I have this very beginner problem. I need to sort dictionary by its 
> >values. I know how to do it by its keys, but I have no idea how to do >it 
>with its values. Any ideas? :)
>
>// Teel

Assuming you're handling strings and rearranging the dictionary for 
printing, maybe you can swap the dictionary keys and values around then sort 
on keys? Like this:

def sortbyval(origdict):
    revdict={}
    for key in origdict:
        revdict[origdict[key]]=key
    keys=revdict.keys()
    keys.sort()
    for key in keys:
        print revdict[key],key

HTH,
Paul

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