pySortDictByValue

# Find the dictionary entry with 2nd highest associated value

my_dict = {'a': 10, 'c': 30, 'b':20, 'd':40, 'g': 25}
listv = list(my_dict.values())               # extract a list of value from the dictionary
listk = list(my_dict.keys())                 # extract a list of keys from the dictionary
# Note: there might be a direct way of extracting value+key pairs, but I've not found it yet
listboth = list(zip(listv, listk))           # gives a list of tuples, being value,key pairs
listsorted = sorted(listboth, reverse=True)  # this seems to sort by value (1st entry in tuple)
mytuple = listsorted[1]                      # extract the tuple for 2nd highest value
print("2nd largest value is for dictionary key", mytuple[1], "value", mytuple[0])