{"id":21674,"date":"2024-03-15T22:26:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T22:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-sort-a-python-dictionary-by-values-magnitude\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T21:03:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T21:03:05","slug":"how-to-sort-a-python-dictionary-by-values-magnitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-sort-a-python-dictionary-by-values-magnitude\/","title":{"rendered":"How to sort a Python dictionary by values&#8217; magnitude?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To sort it by the values in the dictionary, you can use the sorted() function and lambda expression. Here is an example code:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u5b9a\u4e49\u4e00\u4e2a\u5b57\u5178<\/span>\r\nmy_dict = {<span class=\"hljs-string\">'a'<\/span>: <span class=\"hljs-number\">10<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-string\">'b'<\/span>: <span class=\"hljs-number\">5<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-string\">'c'<\/span>: <span class=\"hljs-number\">15<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-string\">'d'<\/span>: <span class=\"hljs-number\">20<\/span>}\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u4f7f\u7528sorted\u51fd\u6570\u548clambda\u8868\u8fbe\u5f0f\u6309\u503c\u7684\u5927\u5c0f\u5bf9\u5b57\u5178\u8fdb\u884c\u6392\u5e8f<\/span>\r\nsorted_dict = <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">dict<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-built_in\">sorted<\/span>(my_dict.items(), key=<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">lambda<\/span> x: x[<span class=\"hljs-number\">1<\/span>]))\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-built_in\">print<\/span>(sorted_dict)\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>The output is:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code>{'b': 5, 'a': 10, 'c': 15, 'd': 20}\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this example, the lambda expression lambda x: x[1] is passed into the sorted() function as the key parameter, indicating a sorting based on the values in the dictionary (i.e. x[1]). 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