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Re: Sorting a set works, sorting a dictionary fails ?

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Date 2013-06-10 11:13 +0100
Subject Re: Sorting a set works, sorting a dictionary fails ?
From Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On 10 Jun 2013 10:53, "Νικόλαος Κούρας" <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> After many tried this did the job:
>
> for key in sorted(months.items(),key=lambda num : num[1]):
>         print('''
>                 <option value="%s"> %s </option>
>         ''' % (key[1], key[0]) )
>
>
> but its really frustrating not being able to:
>
> for key in sorted( months.values() ):
>         print('''
>                 <option value="%s"> %s </option>
>         ''' % (months[key], key) )
>
> Which seemed to be an abivous way to do it.
> names set() was able to order like this why not the dictionary too?

Why not

for key, value in sorted(d.items()):

Tuples are totally sortable.

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Sorting a set works, sorting a dictionary fails ? Νικόλαος Κούρας <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-06-10 01:04 -0700
  Re: Sorting a set works, sorting a dictionary fails ? Νικόλαος Κούρας <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-06-10 01:16 -0700
    Re: Sorting a set works, sorting a dictionary fails ? Νικόλαος Κούρας <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-06-10 01:18 -0700
      Re: Sorting a set works, sorting a dictionary fails ? Νικόλαος Κούρας <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-06-10 01:29 -0700
        Re: Sorting a set works, sorting a dictionary fails ? Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-06-10 10:27 +0100
          Re: Sorting a set works, sorting a dictionary fails ? Νικόλαος Κούρας <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-06-10 02:32 -0700
            Re: Sorting a set works, sorting a dictionary fails ? Νικόλαος Κούρας <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-06-10 02:48 -0700
              Re: Sorting a set works, sorting a dictionary fails ? Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-06-10 11:13 +0100
              Re: Sorting a set works, sorting a dictionary fails ? Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2013-06-10 15:11 +0200
        Re: Sorting a set works, sorting a dictionary fails ? Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2013-06-10 11:40 +0200
          Re: Sorting a set works, sorting a dictionary fails ? Νικόλαος Κούρας <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-06-10 03:20 -0700
          Re: Sorting a set works, sorting a dictionary fails ? Νικόλαος Κούρας <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-06-10 03:42 -0700
            Re: Sorting a set works, sorting a dictionary fails ? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-06-10 11:47 +0000
            Re: Sorting a set works, sorting a dictionary fails ? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-06-11 02:14 +0000
        Re: Sorting a set works, sorting a dictionary fails ? Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2013-06-11 02:16 -0700
  Re: Sorting a set works, sorting a dictionary fails ? Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2013-06-10 11:19 +0200

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