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That is how it can be done:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"python\">&gt;&gt;&gt; d = {'Canada': 513, 'Sao Tome and Principe': 3, 'Fiji': 1, 'Montenegro': 12, 'Lithuania': 47}\n&gt;&gt;&gt; sorted_list = sorted(d, key=d.get, reverse=True)\n&gt;&gt;&gt; for i in sorted_list:\n...     print i,  d[i]\n...\nCanada 513\nLithuania 47\nMontenegro 12\nSao Tome and Principe 3\nFiji 1\n&gt;&gt;&gt;\n<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Didn&#8217;t find the answer to your question? <a href=\"\/contacts\/\">Ask it<\/a> our administrators to reply we will publish on website.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probably one of the most often task while working with dictionaries in Python is sorting by value. 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