Sorting dictionary descending in Python

Question

I am new to Python and I was wondering if there is a more common way of sorting a dictionary in descending order than the way I'm doing it:

sorted_dictionary = sorted(dict.items(), key=lambda x: -x[1])

Answer 1

There is a reverse option to sorted() you could use instead:

sorted(dict.items(), key=lambda kv: kv[1], reverse=True)

This produces the exact same output, and even works if the values are not numeric.

Answer 2

This should work

{k: v for k, v in sorted(dict.items(), key=lambda item: item[1], reverse = True)}

Answer 3

Python dictionary aren't sortable. Your sorted_dictionary output is not a dictionary but a list. You have to use OrderedDict

from collections import OrderedDict

sorted_dictionary = OrderedDict(sorted(dict.items(), key=lambda v: v, reverse=True))