[Tutor] Re: sorting by values in dict

[Paul Tremblay]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:50:38AM +0100, Andrei wrote:
> 
> Paul Tremblay wrote on Thu, 13 Nov 2003 01:52:31 -0500:
> 
> > Is there a way to sort a dictionary by values?
> 
> A dictionary is by definition unsorted.
> 
> > My problem involves a simple script that sorts files by size.
> > 
> > I make dictionary that looks like this:
> > 
> > {'file1': 10000,
> > 'file2'	: 10000,
> > file3'	: 5000,
> > }
> 
> You'll then have to convert this back to a list of tuples of the form
> (size, filename), and then use the sort() method of the list, e.g.:
> 
> >>> files = [(1000, 'file2'), (2000, 'file1'), (900, 'file3')]
> >>> files.sort()
> >>> files
> [(900, 'file3'), (1000, 'file2'), (2000, 'file1')]
> 

Ah, thanks. Thanks everyone else, too. 

Instead of making a dictionary to begin with, I simply will make a list
of tupples and sort. I didn't know you could use sort with a list of
tupples. That does the trick.


Paul

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