Python 2.5 dictionary 2 key sort

Question

I have a dictionary of 200,000 items (the keys are strings and the values are integers).

What is the best/most pythonic way to print the items sorted by descending v

Answer 1

>>> keys = sorted(a, key=lambda k: (-a[k], k))

or

>>> keys = sorted(a)
>>> keys.sort(key=a.get, reverse=True)

then

print [(key, a[key]) for key in keys]
[('keyB', 2), ('keyA', 1), ('keyC', 1)]