typecasting: a string object to a dictionary object

[Ivo]

Here are some examples of how to sort a dictionary.

Now If you first want to convert a string to a dictionary and after sorting
back to a string, why do the converting.
A dictionary is of the Mapping Types, which are by default unsorted. To sort
a dictionary is unnatural behavior for Python. Much easier to sort a tuple
or list. if you convert your string to a list or tupple you can just use
mystr.sort() and you are done.
If you intend to use the dictionary as a dictionary it's ok but otherwise
don't do it.

#  the simplest approach:
def sortedDictValues1(adict):
    items = adict.items()
    items.sort()
    return [value for key, value in items]

# an alternative implementation, which
# happens to run a bit faster for large
# dictionaries on my machine:
def sortedDictValues2(adict):
    keys = adict.keys()
    keys.sort()
    return [dict[key] for key in keys]

# a further slight speed-up on my box
# is to map a bound-method:
def sortedDictValues3(adict):
    keys = adict.keys()
    keys.sort()
    return map(adict.get, keys)

def sort_by_value(d):
    """ Returns the keys of dictionary d sorted by their values """
    items=d.items()
    backitems=[ [v[1],v[0]] for v in items]
    backitems.sort()
    backitems.reverse()
    return [ backitems[i][1] for i in range(0,len(backitems))]

-- 
Cherez,

Ivo.
http://IvoNet.nl
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"dont bother" <dontbotherworld at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.344.1079154269.19534.python-list at python.org...
> Hi,
> Thanks! Just one more favour.
> I want to sort the entries on this new dictionary.
> (Increasing order) and convert it back to a string
> where each values are not separated by , but by space.
>
> ie. for example: I have a string s of the form
> index: value, index: value, index: value
>
> I converted it to a dictionary by the method you
> suggested. I want to sort the entries now, with
> increasing order of index.
>
> Once I have the sorted dictionary, I want to convert
> it back to a string of the form
>
> 1 index:value index:value index:value
>
>
> Note, that 1 is added because I am creating feature
> vectors of the type "spam". index: value pairs are now
> separated by space instead of comma and finally I want
> to write this to a file.
>
> The whole notion of making a string to a dictionary
> was because of sorting.
>
> Can you extend this piece of code for the above
> objective. I will indeed be very grateful to you.
>
>
> import string
>
> # define a test string
> s1 = "<name1: value1, name2: value2, name3: value3>"
> # get rid of the < and > by taking a slice
> s1 = s1[1:-1]
> # split string at the commas
> s2 = string.split(s1,',')
> mydict = {}
> for item in s2:
>         a,b = string.split(item,":")
>         mydict[a] = b
>         print mydict[a]
> print "Dictionary is: ", mydict
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks
> Dont
>
>
> --- midtoad <stewart at midtoad.homelinux.org> wrote:
> > dont bother wrote:
> >
> > > I have a string:
> > >
> > > feature_vector. It is of the form
> > > <index: value, index: value, index: value>
> > >
> > > I want to make this string into a dictionary so
> > that I
> > > can apply .keys() method
> >
> > okay, here's a solution, assuming that your < and >
> > are part of the string.
> > If not, remove the line where you take a slice.
> > I'm sure that there are
> > more Pythonic solutions, but this works...
> >
> > ---
> > import string
> >
> > # define a test string
> > s1 = "<name1: value1, name2: value2, name3: value3>"
> > # get rid of the < and > by taking a slice
> > s1 = s1[1:-1]
> > # split string at the commas
> > s2 = string.split(s1,',')
> > mydict = {}
> > for item in s2:
> >         a,b = string.split(item,":")
> >         mydict[a] = b
> >         print mydict[a]
> > print "Dictionary is: ", mydict
> > ---
> >
> > cheers
> > Stewart
> >
> > -- 
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