On 8/17/08, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a dictionary that looks like: d = {k:[v1,[v2,v3,v4]]}
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> v1,v2,v3,v4 are integers.
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> I want to print the dictionary sorted by v1, high to low.Do you want just the keys, or the key/value pairs, or what? > sorted(d,operator.itemgetter(0),reverse=True) > > gives me the keys in some order different than if I just looped through > the dictionary and not in key order but also not in any order that I can > see. It really appears random. This will give you the keys in order by their first letter (assuming the keys are strings). > sorted(d) does give me a sorted list of keys. Assuming you want the keys sorted by v1. You have to write a function which, given a key, returns v1. That would be def getv1(key): return d[key][0] Then use this as the sort key: sorted(d, key=getv1, reverse=True) Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
