On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Ronn Ross <ronn.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm attempting to sort for the results of a dictionary. I would like to > short by the 'key' in ascending order. I have already made several attempts > using: sorted() and .sort(). > Here is my loop: > for key,value in word_count.items(): > print sorted(key), "=", value
That won't work. "key" will each time be the specific key, which you then try to sort. Instead you want to sort the _set_ of pairs by their first element. Luckily the default sort order of a tuple is by the value of its first element, so you can do: for key,value in sorted(word_count.items()): print key, "=", value -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
