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pythonpython-3.xstringsortingdictionary
user12340167
user12340167

Reputation:

Sorting a dict by value in descending order of utf-8

I have a dictionary like this: {'ex1': 3, 'ex2': 4, 'ex3': 3} and I would like to sort it by values. So I do this: results = sorted(results.items(), key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=True). I put reverse=True because I want it to sort in descending order.
so the code is something like this: 

results  = {'ex1': 3, 'ex2': 4, 'ex3': 3}
results = sorted(results.items(), key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=True)
for item in results:
    print (item[0])

and the output is: 

ex2
ex1
ex3

But the output I want is supposed to be look like this: 

ex2
ex3
ex1

because in utf-8, ex3 is greater than ex1.
Actually what I want to say is that, when two keys have even values, I want to print them in descending order.
What am I doing wrong? Thank you in advanced for your answer

Upvotes: 2

Views: 281

Answers (1)

CDJB
CDJB

Reputation: 14536

This should work - the key function can return a tuple:

results  = {'ex1': 3, 'ex2': 4, 'ex3': 3}
results = sorted(results.items(), key=lambda x: (x[1],x[0]), reverse=True)
for item in results:
    print (item[0])

Gives output:

ex2
ex3
ex1

Upvotes: 2

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