In Python, how do I iterate over a dictionary in sorted key order?

Question

There\'s an existing function that ends in the following, where d is a dictionary:

return d.iteritems()

that returns an unsort

Answer 1

Use the sorted() function:

return sorted(dict.iteritems())

If you want an actual iterator over the sorted results, since sorted() returns a list, use:

return iter(sorted(dict.iteritems()))