I am trying to sort a dictionary by key.

If I do the following, then the dictionary is sorted like this

1, 20
10, 5
11, 3
2, 30
20, 2

Instead, I wanted to sort it like the following:

1, 20
2, 30
10, 5
11, 3
20, 2

My existing code

writer = csv.writer(open('something.csv', 'wb'))keylist = count.keys()
keylist.sort()
for key in keylist:writer.writerow([key, count[key]])

Your dictionary keys are strings, so they are sorted alphabetically. You need to convert the keys to integers first:

keylist = [int(k) for k in count.keys()]
keylist.sort()for key in keylist:writer.writerow([key, count[str(key)]])