Sort dictionary by value when value is a list

2008-11-14 Thread major-john
I'm having trouble sorting a dictionary based on values when the values are all lists, and i want to sort the list by key with the largest value lists in decreasing size. Currently, I have the following: from operator import itemgetter dict = {'A': [(10, 20), (12, 18), (5, 11), (18, 25)], 'C':

Re: Sort dictionary by value when value is a list

2008-11-14 Thread Vlastimil Brom
2008/11/14 major-john [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm having trouble sorting a dictionary based on values when the values are all lists, and i want to sort the list by key with the largest value lists in decreasing size. Currently, I have the following: from operator import itemgetter dict = {'A':

Re: Sort dictionary by value when value is a list

2008-11-14 Thread Chris Rebert
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:26 AM, major-john [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble sorting a dictionary based on values when the values are all lists, and i want to sort the list by key with the largest value lists in decreasing size. Currently, I have the following: from operator