<ul><li>Sorting a Python dictionary involves organizing its key-value pairs in a specific order.</li><li>To sort a Python dictionary by its keys, use the sorted() function combined with .items().</li><li>Sorting by values requires specifying a sort key using a lambda function or itemgetter().</li><li>You can sort a Python dictionary in descending order by setting the reverse argument of the sorted() function to True.</li><li>For non-comparable keys or values, you use default values or custom sort keys.</li><li>Python dictionaries can’t be sorted in-place, so you need to create a new sorted dictionary.</li><li>Before Python 3.6, dictionaries were inherently unordered.</li><li>An essential point to understand when sorting dictionaries is that even though they conserve insertion order, they’re not considered a sequence.</li><li>Because dictionaries don’t have much reordering functionality, when sorting a dictionary, it’s rarely done in-place.</li><li>The typical method for sorting dictionaries is to get a dictionary view, sort it, and then cast the resulting list back into a dictionary.</li></ul>

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