python sort dictionary by descending order of key

Asked Jan 10 '18 at 07:12

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I want to sort this dictionary d based on integer keys.

d = { '123': 'aaa',
      '124': 'bbb,
      '125': 'ccc',
    }

So final dictionary would look like this.

d = { '125': 'ccc',
      '124': 'bbb',
      '123': 'aaa,
    }

I know that Dictionaries do not have any inherent order. But is it achievable?

asked Jan 10 '18 at 07:12

Arun

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Look into `collections.OrderedDict` – Julien Jan 10 '18 at 07:14
Modify the code in the dupe by passing a `key` to `sorted`. – cs95 Jan 10 '18 at 07:16
@Arjun why you want to do this? – Sanket Jan 10 '18 at 07:17
What's your purpose by doing that? Just to get the reversely sorted output? – Wray Zheng Jan 10 '18 at 07:17
How is what achievable? You can not sort the dictionary. So what do you want to sort? – Stephen Rauch Jan 10 '18 at 07:17
@Sanket If you insert elements in sorted order... doesn't that imply that the dictionary is sorted? – cs95 Jan 10 '18 at 07:17
The purpose is I'm getting the data from mail server using python IMAPClient which doesn't support sorting. So I had to go for pythonic way. – Arun Jan 10 '18 at 08:40

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