Sort Counter by frequency, then alphabetically in Python

Question

I am trying to use counter to sort letters by occurrence, and put any that have the same frequency into alphabetical order, but I can\'t get access to the Value of the dicti

Answer 1

You can sort the input before passing it to the counter.

>>> Counter(sorted("alphabet")).most_common()
[('a', 2), ('b', 1), ('e', 1), ('h', 1), ('l', 1), ('p', 1), ('t', 1)]