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

Just sort the resulting dict by values:

for k, v in sorted(adict.items(), key=lambda kv: kv[1], reverse=True):
    print("%s => %s" % (k,v))