sorting a counter in python by keys

Question

I have a counter that looks a bit like this:

Counter: {('A': 10), ('C':5), ('H':4)} 

I want to sort on keys specifically in an alphabetical order, NOT by counter.most_common()

is there any way to achieve this?

Answer 1

Just use sorted:

>>> from collections import Counter >>> counter = Counter({'A': 10, 'C': 5, 'H': 7}) >>> counter.most_common() [('A', 10), ('H', 7), ('C', 5)] >>> sorted(counter.items()) [('A', 10), ('C', 5), ('H', 7)]