"Anthony Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- Scott David Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anthony Liu wrote: > > > mydict = {'the':358, 'they':29, 'went':7, > > 'said':65} > > > Is there an easy to sort this dictionary and get a > > > list like the following (in decreasing order)? > > Yes. > > > > def sortkey((word, frequency)): > > return -frequency, word > > > > for word_freq in sorted(mydict.items(), > key=sortkey): > > print '%-6s %s' % word_freq > > > > Thank you scott, but 'sorted' itself is not a python > library function. So I assume by > "sorted(mydict.items()", you meant the object of > mydict.items() which has been sorted, right?
sorted() is a new builtin in python 2.4: http://www.python.org/2.4/highlights.html George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
