[Tutor] Sorting dictionary values

[W.JarrettCampbell]

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> Problem:
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> I'm building a "Leader Board" application which tracks user names and displays the top 10 scores from a contest
W. Jarrett Campbell, Ph.D.
Member of Technical Staff
Yield Dynamics, Inc.
5838 Balcones Drive, Suite 101
Austin, TX 78731

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> I'm using shelve/pickle for my persistence so basically what I'm confronted with is something that looks like this:
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> userDB = {uniqueUserID:userData}
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> where userData is itself a dictionary like
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> userData = {"fname": "Jarrett",
>                          "lname": "Campbell",
>                          "email": "jarrett@ydyn.com",
>                          "score":"98.8"}
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> What I need to do is find the 10 uniqueUserIDs from userDB where the value of "score" is the in the top 10 of all the records and sort them in order from highest to lowestW. Jarrett Campbell, Ph.D.
> Member of Technical Staff
> Yield Dynamics, Inc.
> 5838 Balcones Drive, Suite 101
> Austin, TX 78731
> 
> 512.323.9149  phone
> 512.415.1078  mobile
> 512.257.9503  fax.  Once that is done, I have a routine to display the leaderboard.
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> Any suggestions for an efficient way to do this?
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> Jarrett Campbell
> jarrett@ydyn.com
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