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Sort a Dictionary by Its Keys

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Write a Python program that sorts a dictionary by its keys in ascending order.

Example 1
    
  
  • Input: {'c': 3, 'a': 1, 'b': 2}
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  • Output: {'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3}
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  • Explanation: 
    
      
      
    • Step 1: Take the input dictionary {'c': 3, 'a': 1, 'b': 2}.
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    • Step 2: Extract the key-value pairs: [('c', 3), ('a', 1), ('b', 2)].
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    • Step 3: Sort the pairs by their keys: [('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('c', 3)].
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    • Step 4: Reconstruct the dictionary from the sorted pairs.
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    • Step 5: Return the sorted dictionary {'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3}.
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Example 2
    
  
  • Input: {'z': 8, 'y': 2, 'x': 5}
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  • Output: {'x': 5, 'y': 2, 'z': 8}
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  • Explanation: 
    
      
      
    • Step 1: Take the input dictionary {'z': 8, 'y': 2, 'x': 5}.
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    • Step 2: Extract the key-value pairs: [('z', 8), ('y', 2), ('x', 5)].
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    • Step 3: Sort the pairs by their keys: [('x', 5), ('y', 2), ('z', 8)].
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    • Step 4: Reconstruct the dictionary from the sorted pairs.
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    • Step 5: Return the sorted dictionary {'x': 5, 'y': 2, 'z': 8}.
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Constraints
    
  
  • 1 ≤ len(d) ≤ 10^3
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  • -10^5 ≤ d[key] ≤ 10^5
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  • Time Complexity: O(n log n), where n is the number of key-value pairs
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  • Space Complexity: O(n)
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  • Use the sorted() function with key=lambda to sort by keys.
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  • Convert the sorted result back into a dictionary using dict().
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  • Use items() to get key-value pairs from the dictionary.
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Steps to solve by this approach:

 Step 1: Get all (key, value) pairs from the dictionary using items().
 Step 2: Sort these pairs using the sorted() function.
 Step 3: Specify a key function lambda x: x[0] to sort by the first element (key).
 Step 4: Convert the sorted list of tuples back to a dictionary with dict().
 Step 5: This preserves the key-value associations while ordering by keys.
 Step 6: Return the new dictionary with sorted keys.
 Step 7: Example: {'c': 3, 'a': 1, 'b': 2} becomes {'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3}.

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