Python program to Sort Dictionary key and values List
In this tutorial, we will learn to write a program in Python to sort a dictionary using the key while also sorting the values in the list of each key. For a given dictionary with keys and values which are given in a list, we will be displaying output as follows.
Input: {'z': [12, 3], 'x': [4, 9, 1], 'y': [11, 4]}
Output: {'x': [1, 4, 9], 'y': [4, 11], 'z': [3, 12]}
Input: {'b': [2, 7, 5, 1, 4], 'a': [20, 16, 2, 4]}
Output: {'a': [2, 4, 16, 20], 'b': [1, 2, 4, 5, 7]}
To solve this problem, we can follow these approaches-
- using sorted() method and loop
- using sorted() and dictionary comprehension
Approach 1: sorted() method and loop
In this approach first, we will sort all the keys in the dictionary, and then we will perform sorting on the list values using a loop. To sort keys we will use the sorted() method that will return all keys after sorting them alphabetically or in ascending order.
Algorithm
Follow the algorithm to understand the approach better.
Step 1- Define a dictionary with values
Step 2- Print the original dictionary
Step 3- Declare an empty dictionary that will store the sorted dictionary
Step 4- Sort keys using sorted()
Step 5- Run a loop to access keys in the sorted order
Step 6- In the loop sort the value list of each key and store it in the new dictionary
Step 7- Print the new dictionary as the result
Python Program 1
Look at the program to understand the implementation of the above-mentioned approach.
dic = {'study': [5, 3, 7],
'to': [11, 4, 2, 6],
'night': [10, 9]}
# print original dictionary
print("The original dictionary is : " ,dic)
# Sort Dictionary key and value List
# Using sorted() and loop
sort_dict = {}
for key in sorted(dic):
sort_dict[key] = sorted(dic[key])
# printing result
print("The sorted dictionary : " , sort_dict)
The original dictionary is : {'study': [5, 3, 7], 'to': [11, 4, 2, 6], 'night': [10, 9]}
The sorted dictionary : {'night': [9, 10], 'study': [3, 5, 7], 'to': [2, 4, 6, 11]}
Approach 2: sorted() method and dictionary comprehension
We will follow a similar approach as mentioned before of sorting the keys first and then sorting the value list. We will be using dictionary comprehension to store sorted values in a new dictionary. The dictionary comprehension is a shorter syntax for creating a new dictionary based on the values of an existing dictionary.
Algorithm
Follow the algorithm to understand the approach better.
Step 1- Define a dictionary with values
Step 2- Print the original dicitonary
Step 3- Use dictionary comprehension to store sorted values in the dictionary
Step 4- Sort keys and values using the sorted() method
Step 5- Print the new dictionary as the result
Python Program 2
Look at the program to understand the implementation of the above-mentioned approach.
dic = {'p': [11, 2],
'r': [3, 2, 1],
'q': [7, 4]}
# print original dictionary
print("The original dictionary is : " ,dic)
# Sort Dictionary key and value List
# dictionary comprehension
sort_dict = {key: sorted(dic[key]) for key in sorted(dic)}
# printing result
print("The sorted dictionary : " , sort_dict)
The original dictionary is : {'p': [11, 2], 'r': [3, 2, 1], 'q': [7, 4]}
The sorted dictionary : {'p': [2, 11], 'q': [4, 7], 'r': [1, 2, 3]}
Conclusion
In this tutorial, we have learned how to sort keys and the value list of a dictionary using methods in Python. We have used the sorted() method to sort keys and values of the given dictionary.
