Question

I have a dictionary like the following. Key value pairs or username:name

d = {"user2":"Tom Cruise", "user1": "Tom Cruise"}

My problem is that i need to sort these by the Name, but if multiple users contain the same name like above, i then need to sort those by their username. I looked up the sorted function but i dont really understand the cmp parameter and the lambda. If someone could explain those and help me with this that would be great! Thanks 🙂

Answer 1

cmp is obsolescent. lambda just makes a function.

sorted(d.iteritems(), key=operator.itemgetter(1, 0))