[Tutor] Algorithm

[Alan Gauld]

"kreglet" <kreglet at gmail.com> wrote

> The reason I used print sorted is that using just print throws a syntax
> error:
> 
> print (lettercount.iteritems(), key=itemgetter(1)) ---> error
> print lettercount.iteritems(), key=itemgetter(1) ---> error
> print sorted(lettercount.iteritems(), key=itemgetter(1)) ---> works
> 
> I don't know why. Seems to me that any of the above should work.

Nope, print takes a string (or something that can be converted to 
a string) as its argument. It does not know what key=itemgetter(1) 
means. That only makes sense to a sort function.

You would need

print lettercount.iteritems()

Although I'm not sure that would actually print what you expect!

HTH,

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Alan Gauld
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