On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Igor Korot <ikoro...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> sorted(a.items(), key=a.get) > [('1', datetime.datetime(2012, 12, 28, 12, 15, 30, 100)), ('3', > datetime.datetim > e(2012, 12, 28, 12, 16, 44, 100)), ('2', datetime.datetime(2012, 12, 28, 12, > 17, > 29, 100))] >>>> > > However, trying to do the same thing from the script does not sort the > dictionary: > > sorted(my_dict.items(), key=my_dict.get, reverse=False) > for key, value in my_dict.items(): > print value, key > > the dictionary prints with unsorted items.
The sorted() function returns a sorted list. You're then going back to the original dictionary. Instead, just iterate over the sorted items: items = sorted(my_dict.items(), key=my_dict.get, reverse=False) for key, value in items: print value, key ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list