Wanderer wrote:
> I have a dll that to communicate with I need to send numeric codes. So
> I created a dictionary. It works in one direction in that I can
> address the key and get the value. But when the program returns the
> value I can't get the key. This code is very simple and I could use a
> list and the index except for the last value. Is there a better way to
> handle coding and decoding values to strings?
>
> QCam_Info = {
> 'qinfCameraType' : 0, # Camera model (see
> QCam_qcCameraType)
> 'qinfSerialNumber' : 1, # Deprecated
> 'qinfHardwareVersion' : 2, # Hardware version
> 'qinfFirmwareVersion' : 3, # Firmware version
> 'qinfCcd' : 4, # CCD model (see
> QCam_qcCcd)
[ ... ]
'_qinf_force32' : 0xFFFFFFFF
> }
I handled this problem in a kind of cheap, nasty way with (untested)
for k, v in QCam_Info.items():
QCam_Info[v] = k
Then the dictionary lookups work both ways.
Mel.
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