How to print counter without bracket in python and sort data.

[phob0s]

How to print counter without bracket and sort result in python ?

I need to have this final result :

2 : 2
3 : 3
4 : 4
5 : 3
7 : 2

But I'v got this :

Counter({4: 4, 3: 3, 5: 3, 2: 2, 7: 2})

Here is my code :

counter=collections.Counter(lst)
    print(counter)
    counter.keys()
    for key, value in counter.items():
        #print(key,":", value)
        ctx = (key, value)
        print(ctx)
    tab.append(ctx)
    tab.sort()
    #print(tab)
    #print(*tab, sep = "\n")

Or this result but not sorted with this print options :

print(key,":", value)

3 : 3
4 : 4
2 : 2
5 : 3
7 : 2

Thanks for any help.

[ichabod801]

If you put sorted() around counter.items() they will come out sorted.