it also won't work if your values are mutable (e.g.: lists), since they
can't be used as keys in your mirroring dictionary.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Noah Spurrier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 7:22 PM
Subject: RE: How to get a key from dictionary?
>
> One way to do this is to simply create two dictionaries at the same time.
> Each dictionary is the mirror of each other.
> dict1={'aa':1, 'bb':2]
> dict2={1:'aa', 2:'bb']
> Not very elegant, but it's simple. This assumes that your dictionary is
one-to-one.
> For example, this dictionary would not work:
> dict1=['aa':1, 'bb':1]
>
> Yours,
> Noah
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 2:16 PM
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> > Subject: How to get a key from dictionary?
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> > Is there a possibility to get, from a dictionary, a key according to a
> > value ?
> > For example
> > I have a dictionary
> >
> > dict={'aa':1,'bb':2}
> >
> > and
> > dict['aa']
> > is 1
> >
> > But how can I for value 1 find out key? (That is here 'aa')
> >
> > Thank you for help
> > Ladislav
> >
> >
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