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

In general, one may sort a dict like so:

for k in sorted(d):
    print k, d[k]

For the specific case in the question, having a "drop in replacement" for d.iteritems(), add a function like:

def sortdict(d, **opts):
    # **opts so any currently supported sorted() options can be passed
    for k in sorted(d, **opts):
        yield k, d[k]

and so the ending line changes from

return dict.iteritems()

to

return sortdict(dict)

or

return sortdict(dict, reverse = True)