How to save sorted dict to list of tuples?

Question

My problem has probably quite easy solution but I'm a Python beginner and can't do that.

b = input()
a = b.split()
from collections import Counter
myDict = Counter(a)
import operator
test_dict = myDict
wynik = sorted(test_dict.items(), key=operator.itemgetter(1))
print(wynik)

Why wynik isn't sorted?

Answer 1

Your data is sorted. In ascending order by value. If you wanted to have the counts in descending order, use reverse=True to reverse the sorted order:

sorted(test_dict.items(), key=operator.itemgetter(1), reverse=True)

Note that you don't need to sort yourself; use the Counter.most_common() method instead:

wynik = test_dict.most_common()

This method returns the keys and counts in descending order already:

>>> from collections import Counter
>>> counts = Counter('abc abc qwerty abc bla bla bla abc'.split())
>>> counts.most_common()
[('abc', 4), ('bla', 3), ('qwerty', 1)]