[Tutor] Sorting a dictionary by a value when the values are tuples

[ranjan das]

This is a small example i created


from operator import itemgetter

temp={'4':(2,3), '2':(5,8)}

print temp.items()

new_temp=sorted(temp.items(), key=itemgetter(1)

print new_temp


I want to sort the dictionary by the value in the first element of the tuple
((2,3) and (5,8)) and then the second value.

How do i do it? by setting key=itemgetter(1), it seems to sort the dict by
the first value of the tuple. But I am not able to do it for the second
value.
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