Comments on digital sanitation engineering: Sorting Python Dictionary By Value, Take 2

I'm glad that this topic has created so much good ...

2008-09-10T10:19:00.000-04:00

I'm glad that this topic has created so much good discussion. There aren't a whole lot of people doing performance profiling on python code.

thanks lorg! updated with corrections. --nickg

2008-09-10T08:55:54.566-04:00

thanks lorg! updated with corrections. --nickg

You have a small mistake that doesn't affect the r...

2008-09-10T02:51:00.000-04:00

You have a small mistake that doesn't affect the result:
In sbv0 you are not sorting by value, but by value and then by key.

To sort by value you would write

key = lambda (k,v): v

This improves the result by a little bit, but still the itemgetter wins.