Sort dictionary by Python value

Question

I have a dictionary with the following format

dic={759147': 54, '186398060': 8, '199846203': 42, '191725321': 10, '158947719': 4}

would like to know if there is how to sort it by value and print on the screen. So that the output is.

'158947719': 4
'186398060': 8    
'191725321': 10
'199846203': 42
'759147': 54 

Answer 1

You can use the function sorted():

dic = {'759147': 54, '186398060': 8, '199846203': 42, '191725321': 10, '158947719': 4}
for item in sorted(dic, key = dic.get):
    print (dic[item])

Behold working in the ideone. And in the repl it.. Also put on the Github for future reference.

Just one detail, the correct term would be classify the dictionary.

Answer 2

A python dictionary has no order, in most cases it makes no sense to maintain the order of the dictionary items.

But there is the Ordereddict (also in python 2).

Alternatively you can sort a list with the keys and access the values in the order of that list.