nomeyer/sort_dict.py

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Sort a dictionary by value (descending) – see http://stackoverflow.com/a/613218

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sort_dict.py

	from operator import itemgetter
	sorted_d = sorted(d.items(), key=itemgetter(1), reverse=True)
	# sorted_dict is a list of tuples (key, value)

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