how to sort a hash list without generating a new object?

Date	2011-08-03 02:02 +0800
Subject	how to sort a hash list without generating a new object?
From	smith jack <thinke365@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.1795.1312308133.1164.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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the source code is as follows

x={}
x['a'] = 11
x['c'] = 19
x['b'] = 13
print x

tmp = sorted(x.items(), key = lambda x:x[0])    #  increase order by
default, if i want to have a descending order, what should i do?
# after sorted is called, a list will be generated, and the hash list
x is not changed at all, how to convert x to a sorted hash list
without generating a new object?
print tmp
print x

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