months = {"January": 31, "February": 28, "March": 31, "April": 30, "May": 31,
          "June": 30, "July": 31, "August": 31, "September": 30, "October": 31,
          "November": 30, "December": 31}

def mykey(t):
    """ Customize your sorting logic using this function.  The parameter to
    this function is a tuple.  Comment/uncomment the return statements to test
    different logics.
    """
    return t[1]              # sort by number of days in the month
    #return t[1], t[0]       # sort by number of days, then by month name
    #return len(t[0])        # sort by length of month name
    #return t[0][-1]         # sort by last character of month name


# Since a dictionary can't be sorted by value, what you can do is to convert
# it into a list of tuples with tuple length 2.
# You can then do custom sorts by passing your own function to sorted().
months_as_list = sorted(months.items(), key=mykey, reverse=False)

for month in months_as_list:
    print month

Python 3.7+或CPython 3.6

Python 3.7+中的字典保持插入顺序。CPython 3.6中也一样，但这是一个实现细节。

>>> x = {1: 2, 3: 4, 4: 3, 2: 1, 0: 0}
>>> {k: v for k, v in sorted(x.items(), key=lambda item: item[1])}
{0: 0, 2: 1, 1: 2, 4: 3, 3: 4}

or

>>> dict(sorted(x.items(), key=lambda item: item[1]))
{0: 0, 2: 1, 1: 2, 4: 3, 3: 4}

较旧的Python

不可能对字典进行排序，只能获得已排序字典的表示。字典本质上是无序的，但其他类型，如列表和元组，则不是。因此，您需要一个有序的数据类型来表示排序的值，这将是一个列表，可能是一个元组列表。

例如，

import operator
x = {1: 2, 3: 4, 4: 3, 2: 1, 0: 0}
sorted_x = sorted(x.items(), key=operator.itemgetter(1))

sorted_x将是由每个元组中的第二个元素排序的元组列表。dict（sorted_x）==x。

对于那些希望按关键字而不是值排序的用户：

import operator
x = {1: 2, 3: 4, 4: 3, 2: 1, 0: 0}
sorted_x = sorted(x.items(), key=operator.itemgetter(0))

在Python3中，由于不允许开箱，我们可以使用

x = {1: 2, 3: 4, 4: 3, 2: 1, 0: 0}
sorted_x = sorted(x.items(), key=lambda kv: kv[1])

如果要将输出作为字典，可以使用collections.OrderedDict:

import collections

sorted_dict = collections.OrderedDict(sorted_x)

尝试以下方法。让我们用以下数据定义一个名为mydict的字典：

mydict = {'carl':40,
          'alan':2,
          'bob':1,
          'danny':3}

如果要按关键字对字典进行排序，可以执行以下操作：

for key in sorted(mydict.iterkeys()):
    print "%s: %s" % (key, mydict[key])

这将返回以下输出：

alan: 2
bob: 1
carl: 40
danny: 3

另一方面，如果想要按值对字典进行排序（如问题中所问），可以执行以下操作：

for key, value in sorted(mydict.iteritems(), key=lambda (k,v): (v,k)):
    print "%s: %s" % (key, value)

此命令的结果（按值对字典进行排序）应返回以下内容：

bob: 1
alan: 2
danny: 3
carl: 40

如果值是数字，则还可以使用集合中的计数器。

from collections import Counter

x = {'hello': 1, 'python': 5, 'world': 3}
c = Counter(x)
print(c.most_common())

>> [('python', 5), ('world', 3), ('hello', 1)]    

我刚刚从Python for Everyone学习了相关技能。

您可以使用临时列表来帮助您对词典进行排序：

# Assume dictionary to be:
d = {'apple': 500.1, 'banana': 1500.2, 'orange': 1.0, 'pineapple': 789.0}

# Create a temporary list
tmp = []

# Iterate through the dictionary and append each tuple into the temporary list
for key, value in d.items():
    tmptuple = (value, key)
    tmp.append(tmptuple)

# Sort the list in ascending order
tmp = sorted(tmp)

print (tmp)

如果要按降序排序列表，只需将原始排序行更改为：

tmp = sorted(tmp, reverse=True)

使用列表理解，一行是：

# Assuming the dictionary looks like
d = {'apple': 500.1, 'banana': 1500.2, 'orange': 1.0, 'pineapple': 789.0}
# One-liner for sorting in ascending order
print (sorted([(v, k) for k, v in d.items()]))
# One-liner for sorting in descending order
print (sorted([(v, k) for k, v in d.items()], reverse=True))

样本输出：

# Ascending order
[(1.0, 'orange'), (500.1, 'apple'), (789.0, 'pineapple'), (1500.2, 'banana')]
# Descending order
[(1500.2, 'banana'), (789.0, 'pineapple'), (500.1, 'apple'), (1.0, 'orange')]

在最近的Python2.7中，我们有了新的OrderedDict类型，它可以记住添加项目的顺序。

>>> d = {"third": 3, "first": 1, "fourth": 4, "second": 2}

>>> for k, v in d.items():
...     print "%s: %s" % (k, v)
...
second: 2
fourth: 4
third: 3
first: 1

>>> d
{'second': 2, 'fourth': 4, 'third': 3, 'first': 1}

要从原始字典创建新的有序字典，请按值排序：

>>> from collections import OrderedDict
>>> d_sorted_by_value = OrderedDict(sorted(d.items(), key=lambda x: x[1]))

OrderedDict的行为类似于普通dict：

>>> for k, v in d_sorted_by_value.items():
...     print "%s: %s" % (k, v)
...
first: 1
second: 2
third: 3
fourth: 4

>>> d_sorted_by_value
OrderedDict([('first': 1), ('second': 2), ('third': 3), ('fourth': 4)])