I want to sort a tinyDB file in decending order based on values stored not tags

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List of pairs to dict: the list [{}] is not a well-formed list of pairs

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Let us try to understand what you want to do....

Assume you have three entries in yout tinydb:

tag = a, value = 9
tag = b, value = 10
tag = c, value = 4

You want to sort these by value?

Call the tags with taglist and add the tag and value in a loop to a LIST

[["a","9"],["b","10"],["c","4"]]

then sort the sub lists by the second item in each sub list using the built-in list blocks, to get:

[["c","4"],["a","9"],["b","10"]]

then what ?

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Since when does TinyDB accept a list as a tag, as in your last block?

TinyDB stores tags in alpha order.

P.S. What you want is a list of lists.
Those allow reordering.

Here are two advanced list sort blocks you can use:
lists_sort_comparator
lists_sort_key

TinyDB tag/value collections and dictionaries are forced to remain in tag/key order.