Hey guys, in this blog we will see a Python Program to Sort a Dictionary by Value.
Example 1: Sort the dictionary based on values
# Python Program to Sort a Dictionary by Value
dt = {8:9, 2:4, 1:6, 3:3}
sorted_dt = {key: value for key, value in sorted(dt.items(), key=lambda item: item[1])}
print(sorted_dt)
Output
{3: 3, 2: 4, 1: 6, 8: 9}
- In this method, we are sorting our dictionary on the basis of values (not keys).
- We have used the sorted() function to sort our dictionary and the key to sort on is the second item in the tuple we will get using dt.items().
- dt.items() will return dict_items([(8, 9), (2, 4), (1, 6), (3, 3)])
- After using sorted on the above list we will get [(3,3),(2,4),(1,6),(8,9)]
Example 2: Sort only the values
# Python Program to Sort a Dictionary by Value
dt = {8:9, 2:4, 1:6, 3:3}
print(sorted(dt.values()))
Output
[3, 4, 6, 9]
- In this method, we are only sorting and printing the values of dt(our Python Dictionary).
- We have used the sorted() method on dt.values().
- dt.values() is used to return all the values of the dictionary.
- In this case, it will return [9,4,6,3].
Check out our other python programming examples…