challenge ?

[Michael Spencer]

alain wrote:
> I have a problem I wonder if it has been solved before.
> I have a dictionnary and I want the values in the dictionnary to be
> annotated with the rank that would be obtained by sorting the values
> 
> def annotate_with_rank(my_dict):
> 	....
> 	return my_annotated_dict
> 
> In other words, any value a_value would become a 2-tuple
> (a_value,rank_of_a_value)
> 
> I seek an elegant solution.
> 
> Alain
> 
  >>> d = dict(a=10, b=5, c=8, d=12)

  >>> dict((k, (v, rank)) for rank, (v, k) in
  ...     enumerate(sorted((v, k) for k, v in d.items())))
  {'a': (10, 2), 'c': (8, 1), 'b': (5, 0), 'd': (12, 3)}
  >>>

# sort by value, then by key since (v,k) must be unique


Michael