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Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 08:11:53 -0600
From: Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com>
To: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Sorting dictionary by datetime value
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On 2014-02-08 19:29, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Igor Korot <ikorot01@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Try this:
> >>
> >> sorted_items = sorted(my_dict.keys(), key=my_dict.get)
> >
> > This code fail.
> 
> Actually, it's a list of keys - notice that I changed
> my_dict.items() into my_dict.keys()?

Unless you need to make a copy (for purposes of altering the original
while iterating), that's the default behavior of iterating over a
dict, so it could be simplified to

  sorted_items = sorted(my_dict, key=my_dict.get)

-tkc