Reversing sorted dictionary in Python 3

Question

I'm sorting my dictionary by key, but I'd like to reverse the order. However I'm not getting much joy with a few of the examples I have seen around the web.

Here is the sort

tempdict = collections.OrderedDict(sorted(tempdict.items()))

now I'm trying:

reverse = collections.OrderedDict(tempdict.items()[::-1])
reverse = collections.OrderedDict(map(reversed, tempdict.items()))

But these are not working. What is the smartest and most elegant way of sorting the dictionary. Yes I know, dictionaries are not really used for the sorting, but this works well for us. Thanks.

Answer 1

To sort in reverse order:

collections.OrderedDict(sorted(tempdict.items(), reverse=True))

To reverse an existing dict:

collections.OrderedDict(reversed(list(tempdict.items())))