Nested ordered dict sort. If you need to sort your dict or OrderedDict, this snippet may come helpfull.
from collections import OrderedDict def ordered_dict(od, reverse=False, sort_key=None): """Sort nested ordered dict recursively. sort_key - sort by dict key case insensitively: sort_key = lambda (k, v): k.lower() """ if not isinstance(od, OrderedDict): od = OrderedDict(od) res = OrderedDict() for k, v in sorted(od.items(), reverse=reverse, key=sort_key): if isinstance(v, dict): res[k] = ordered_dict(v) else: res[k] = v return res # show-off a = {chr(i+ord('a')+(i%2)*(ord('A')-ord('a'))): i for i in reversed(range(0,26))} print(ordered_dict(a, reverse=True, sort_key=lambda (k,v): k.lower()))