John Fouhy wrote:
> You could use the map function...
>
> Let's say we have something like:
>
> transDict = { 'a':1, 'b':2, 'c':3 }
>
> We could define a function that mirrors this:
>
> def transFn(c):
> try:
> return transDict[c]
> except KeyError:
> return c
This could be written more simply as
return transDict.get(c, c)
> Then if you have your data:
>
> data = { 1:('a','b','c'), 2:('a','c'), 3:('b','c'), 4:('a','d')}
>
> You can translate it as:
>
> for key in data.keys():
> data[key] = map(transFn, data[key])
I would use a list comprehension and dict.get():
for key, value in data.items():
data[key] = [ transDict.get(i, i) for i in value ]
Kent
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