finding top k largest keys in a dictionary python

Question

Lets say I have a dictionary:

{key1:value1........... keyn:valuen}

So lets say I want to write a function

def return_top_k(         


        

Answer 1

In code

dct = {"a": 1, "b": 2, "c": 3, "d": 4, "e": 5}
k = 3
print sorted(dct.keys(), reverse=True)[:k]

If you also need values:

print sorted(dct.items(), reverse=True)[:k]

Or if you would want to use OrderedDict:

from collections import OrderedDict
d = OrderedDict(sorted(dct.items(), reverse=True))
print d.keys()[:k]