Question

I have a dictionary of the form:

d = { 'someText': floatNumber }

Where floatNumber is an epoch timestamp. I’m trying to organise this such that time is in ascending order.

Example: {'someText':0000001, 'someText1':0000002, and so on}

Only way I can think of doing it is by looping with for k,v in dict.items() and then manually sorting it into a list but that may take a long time. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Maybe you want:

import operator
values = sorted(d.items(), key=operator.itemgetter(1))

which would generate a sorted list of tuples, like

[('someText', 1), ('someText', 2), ...]

Dictionaries cannot be sorted, so you have to use another data structure to store your key-value pairs.