{"id":31428,"date":"2023-01-21T10:19:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T04:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-python-sort-dictionary-by-value-equal-values\/"},"modified":"2023-01-21T10:19:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T04:49:08","slug":"solved-python-sort-dictionary-by-value-equal-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-python-sort-dictionary-by-value-equal-values\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Python: Sort dictionary by value (equal values)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-49639289\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"49639289\" data-parentid=\"49639242\" data-score=\"1\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>dictionaries are unordered (well pre 3.6 at least), instead sort the items<\/p>\n<pre><code>d = {3: '__init__', 5: 'other', 7: 'hey  ', 11: 'hey'}\nprint(sorted(d.items(),key=lambda item:(item[0].strip(),item[1])))\n\n# output =&gt; [(3, '__init__'), (7, 'hey  '), (11, 'hey'), (5, 'other')]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>if you really want it as a dict (for reasons i cant fathom) and you are using 3.6+ then you can just  create a new dict from your sorted items<\/p>\n<pre><code>d2 = dict(sorted(d.items(),key=lambda item:item[1]))\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>*(note that in 3.6 that dicts maintain order is an implementation detail, not a guarantee, but 3.7+ its part of the language specification)<\/p>\n<p>you can do the same thing in earlier pythons using collections.OrderedDict<\/p>\n<pre><code>from collections import OrderedDict\nd2 = OrderedDict(sorted(d.items(),key=lambda item:item[1]))\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>since you cant use builtin sorted here is a bubble sort for you &#8230; although I dont understand how having strangers on the internet write a sort function for you is any better than just using the python builtin sorted<\/p>\n<pre><code>def my_bubble_sort(list_thing,key_fn):\n    # sort a list in place by a key fn\n    changed = True\n    while changed:\n        changed = False\n        for i in range(len(list_thing)-1):\n            if key_fn(list_thing[i]) &gt; 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