Question

I want to Sort the dictionary by score. if the score is same then sort them by name

{ 
'sudha'  : {score : 75} 
'Amruta' : {score : 95} 
'Ramesh' : {score : 56} 
'Shashi' : {score : 78} 
'Manoj'  : {score : 69} 
'Resham'  : {score : 95} 
} 

Help plz
Thanks.

Answer 1

I think this should work…

sorted(yourdict,key=lambda x:(yourdict[x]['score'],x))

It works by comparing tuples (score,name). Tuple comparison looks at the first item — if those are the same, it looks at the second item and so forth. So, (55,’jack’) > (54,’lemon) and (55,’j’) < (55,’k’).

Of course, this returns the keys of yourdict in the order desired — there’s no way to actually sort a dictionary since dictionaries have no concept of order.