Sorting a dictionary by value then by key [duplicate]

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In [62]: y={100:1, 90:4, 99:3, 92:1, 101:1}
In [63]: sorted(y.items(), key=lambda x: (x[1],x[0]), reverse=True)
Out[63]: [(90, 4), (99, 3), (101, 1), (100, 1), (92, 1)]

The key=lambda x: (x[1],x[0]) tells sorted that for each item x in y.items(), use (x[1],x[0]) as the proxy value to be sorted. Since x is of the form (key,value), (x[1],x[0]) yields (value,key). This causes sorted to sort by value first, then by key for tie-breakers.

reverse=True tells sorted to present the result in descending, rather than ascending order.

See this wiki page for a great tutorial on sorting in Python.

PS. I tried using key=reversed instead, but reversed(x) returns an iterator, which does not compare as needed here.

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