Python Program to Sort a Dictionary by Value

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Example 1: Sort the dictionary based on values

Output

{6: 3, 5: 4, 1: 6}

Here, key=lambda item: item[1] returns the values of each key:value pair.
From each key:value pair of dt.item(), sorted() sorts the items based on values.

Learn more about sorted() and its parameter key at Python sorted().

Output

[3, 4, 6]

In this example, sorted() is used for sorted values only. The values are fed into sorted() using dt.values().

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