On Nov 9, 2:27 pm, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
> J Wolfe wrote:
> > I would like to sort this dictionary by the values of the inner
> > dictionary ‘ob’ key.
>
> Python's built-in dictionary is unsorted by design.
>
>
>
> > mydict =
> > {’WILW1′: {’fx’: ‘8.1′, ‘obtime’: ‘2009-11-07 06:45:0
On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:02:09 -0800, J Wolfe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to sort this dictionary by the values of the inner
> dictionary ‘ob’ key.
You can't sort dictionaries in Python, because they are unordered hash
tables. Giving up the ability to store items in order is one of the
things
J Wolfe wrote:
> I would like to sort this dictionary by the values of the inner
> dictionary ‘ob’ key.
Python's built-in dictionary is unsorted by design.
> mydict =
> {’WILW1′: {’fx’: ‘8.1′, ‘obtime’: ‘2009-11-07 06:45:00′, ‘ob’: ‘6.9′},
> ‘GRRW1′: {’fx’: ‘12.8′, ‘obtime’: ‘2009-11-07 04:15:0