Re: join dictionaries using keys from one values
Super simple: dict3 = {} for k1 in dict1.keys(): for k2 in dict2.keys(): if dict1.get(k1) == dict2[k2]: dict3[k1] = k2 works in all cases and can be simplified to an iterated dictionary in python 2.4 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: join dictionaries using keys from one values
Thanks again. This is very helpful. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: join dictionaries using keys from one values
ProvoWallis wrote: I'm still learning python so this might be a crazy question but I thought I would ask anyway. Can anyone tell me if it is possible to join two dictionaries together to create a new dictionary using the keys from the old dictionaries? There is no builtin method. The usual way is to just wrap a class around two dictionaries, one for mapping keys to values and the other for mapping values back to keys. -- Erik Max Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA 37 20 N 121 53 W AIM erikmaxfrancis Yes I'm / Learning from falling / Hard lessons -- Lamya -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: join dictionaries using keys from one values
ProvoWallis wrote: I'm still learning python so this might be a crazy question but I thought I would ask anyway. Can anyone tell me if it is possible to join two dictionaries together to create a new dictionary using the keys from the old dictionaries? The keys in the new dictionary would be the keys from the old dictionary one (dict1) and the values in the new dictionary would be the keys from the old dictionary two (dict2). The keys would be joined by matching the values from dict1 and dict2. The keys in each dictionary are unique. dict1 = {1:'bbb', 2:'aaa', 3:'ccc'} dict2 = {5.01:'bbb', 6.01:'ccc', 7.01:'aaa'} dict3 = {1 : 5.01, 3 : 6.01, 2 : 7.01} I looked at update but I don't think it's what I'm looking for. Thanks, If you can be sure that the value is hashable, I think you can just invert one of the dict(key/value flipped) and a for loop to create the new dict dict2x = dict( ((dict2[k], k) for k in dict2.iterkeys())) dict3 = dict(((k, dict2x[v]) for k,v in dict1.iteritems())) This doesn't handle the case where v is in dict1 but not in dict2, it can be filtered out though. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: join dictionaries using keys from one values
Thanks so much. I never would have been able to figure this out on my own. def dictionary_join(one, two): dict2x = dict( ((dict2[k], k) for k in dict2.iterkeys())) dict3 = dict(((k, dict2x[v]) for k,v in dict1.iteritems())) print dict3 dict1 = {1:'bbb', 2:'aaa', 3:'ccc'} dict2 = {'5.01':'bbb', '6.01':'ccc', '7.01':'aaa'} dictionary_join(dict1, dict2) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: join dictionaries using keys from one values
ProvoWallis wrote: Thanks so much. I never would have been able to figure this out on my own. def dictionary_join(one, two): dict2x = dict( ((dict2[k], k) for k in dict2.iterkeys())) dict3 = dict(((k, dict2x[v]) for k,v in dict1.iteritems())) print dict3 dict1 = {1:'bbb', 2:'aaa', 3:'ccc'} dict2 = {'5.01':'bbb', '6.01':'ccc', '7.01':'aaa'} dictionary_join(dict1, dict2) You might want to make a working function. def join_dicts(d1,d2): temp = dict(((d2[k], k) for k in d2.iterkeys())) joined = dict(((k, temp[v]) for k,v in d1.iteritems())) return joined -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: join dictionaries using keys from one values
ProvoWallis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The keys in the new dictionary would be the keys from the old dictionary one (dict1) and the values in the new dictionary would be the keys from the old dictionary two (dict2). The keys would be joined by matching the values from dict1 and dict2. The keys in each dictionary are unique. ...but are the VALUES unique...? That's the crucial issue and you don't mention anything about it. dict1 = {1:'bbb', 2:'aaa', 3:'ccc'} dict2 = {5.01:'bbb', 6.01:'ccc', 7.01:'aaa'} dict3 = {1 : 5.01, 3 : 6.01, 2 : 7.01} But what if in dict1 both keys 2 and 3 had a corresponding value of 'ccc' -- what would you want as a result then? What if key 1 had a corresponding value of 'ddd' -- not a value in dict2; what would you want THEN? Without a more complete specification, it's impossible to tell, and one key Python principle is in the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess. If values are assured to be unique, and the sets of values of the two dictionaries are assured to be identical, then the suggestion (already given in another post) to invert dict2 is a good idea, i.e., as a function: def PWmerge(d1, d2): invd = dict((v2, k2) for k2, v2 in d2.iteritems()) return dict((k1,invd[v1]) for k1,v1 in d1.iteritems()) but without all of the above assurances, different tweaks may be needed depending on what exactly you want to happen in the several anomalous cases. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list