Sorting a dictionary

[Jaime Fernandez del Rio]

This one I think I know... Try with:

for k in sorted(word_count) :
    print k,"=",word_count[k]

You need to do the sorting before iterating over the keys...

Jaime

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Ronn Ross <ronn.ross at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm attempting to sort for the results of a dictionary. I would like to
> short by the 'key' in ascending order. I have already made several attempts
> using: sorted() and .sort().
> Here is my loop:
>     for key,value in word_count.items():
>         print sorted(key), "=", value
>
> Thanks
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