Re: sort values from dictionary of dictionaries python 2.4

2009-11-20 Thread J Wolfe
On Nov 9, 2:27 pm, Peter Otten __pete...@web.de wrote: J Wolfe wrote: I would like to sort this dictionary by the values of the inner dictionary ‘ob’ key. Python's built-in dictionary is unsorted by design. mydict = {’WILW1′: {’fx’: ‘8.1′, ‘obtime’: ‘2009-11-07 06:45:00′, ‘ob’:

Re: sort values from dictionary of dictionaries python 2.4

2009-11-09 Thread Peter Otten
J Wolfe wrote: I would like to sort this dictionary by the values of the inner dictionary ‘ob’ key. Python's built-in dictionary is unsorted by design. mydict = {’WILW1′: {’fx’: ‘8.1′, ‘obtime’: ‘2009-11-07 06:45:00′, ‘ob’: ‘6.9′}, ‘GRRW1′: {’fx’: ‘12.8′, ‘obtime’: ‘2009-11-07 04:15:00′,

Re: sort values from dictionary of dictionaries python 2.4

2009-11-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:02:09 -0800, J Wolfe wrote: Hi, I would like to sort this dictionary by the values of the inner dictionary ‘ob’ key. You can't sort dictionaries in Python, because they are unordered hash tables. Giving up the ability to store items in order is one of the things