Sorted Word frequency count using python

Question

I have to count the word frequency in a text using python. I thought of keeping words in a dictionary and having a count for each of these words.

Now if I have to so

Answer 1

>>> d = {'a': 3, 'b': 1, 'c': 2, 'd': 5, 'e': 0}
>>> l = d.items()
>>> l.sort(key = lambda item: item[1])
>>> l
[('e', 0), ('b', 1), ('c', 2), ('a', 3), ('d', 5)]