python, convert a dictionary to a sorted list by value instead of key

Question

I have a collections.defaultdict(int) that I\'m building to keep count of how many times a key shows up in a set of data. I later want to be able to sort it (obviously by turnin

Answer 1

To get the dictionary sorted:

from operator import itemgetter

sorted(adict.iteritems(), key=itemgetter(1), reverse=True)