Mar 5, 2009 · I have a dictionary of values read from two fields in a database: a string field and a numeric field. The string field is unique, so that is the key of the dictionary. I can sort on the keys, but ...

Jan 26, 2017 · From python 3.7.4 manual: "Performing list (d) on a dictionary returns a list of all the keys used in the dictionary, in insertion order". So insertion order is something which is preserved and we …

It's worth noting that Python has a number of dictionary implementations that maintain the keys in sorted order. Consider the sortedcontainers module which is pure-Python and fast-as-C implementations.

Now that the insertion order of Python dictionaries is guaranteed starting in Python 3.7 (and in CPython 3.6), what is the best/fastest way to sort a dictionary - both by value and by key?

48 If you actually want to sort the dictionary instead of just obtaining a sorted list use collections.OrderedDict

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Possible Duplicate: In Python how do I sort a list of dictionaries by values of the dictionary? Sorting Python dictionary based on nested dictionary values I have dictionary of the form as

Feb 6, 2015 · I want to sort a dictionary's keys by their respective values, and then sort any keys with the same value alphabetically. What is the best way to do this, ideally without the use of modules?

May 26, 2017 · 56 I'm sorting a Python 3.2.2 dictionary by its keys into a sorted list with 2 argument members, but can not make it a sorted dictionary in the end:

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