"kreglet" <kreg...@gmail.com> wrote
The reason I used print sorted is that using just print throws a syntax
error:
print (lettercount.iteritems(), key=itemgetter(1)) ---> error
print lettercount.iteritems(), key=itemgetter(1) ---> error
print sorted(lettercount.iteritems(), key=itemgetter(1)) ---> works
I don't know why. Seems to me that any of the above should work.
Nope, print takes a string (or something that can be converted to
a string) as its argument. It does not know what key=itemgetter(1)
means. That only makes sense to a sort function.
You would need
print lettercount.iteritems()
Although I'm not sure that would actually print what you expect!
HTH,
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