Strategies for sorting dictionaries in python

dictionary_sorting.py

import operator

def sort_dict(d):
    """
    Sorts a dict by it's values, assuming the values are ints.
    """
    return sorted(d.iteritems(), key=lambda (k,v): (v,k), reverse=True)

def sort_dict_list(l, key):
    """
    Sorts a list of dicts by the value of each key.
    """
    return sorted(l, key=operator.itemgetter(key))