Keyerror problem

[davbucko]

Thanks!  I wasn't too sure about what the backticks meant, but I thought
that they might be necessary.  Oh well

Dave

"Gerhard Häring" <gerhard.haering at gmx.de> wrote in message
news:slrnan5f2o.4s9.gerhard.haering at lilith.my-fqdn.de...
> davbucko wrote in comp.lang.python:
> > I have a class Flags as follows:
> >
> > class Flags:
> >     def __init__(self):
> >         self.flags = {}
> >
> >     def getInverseFlags(self):
> >         for i in self.flags.keys():
> >             #switch some keys/values around
> >
> >     def setFlag(self,name,value):
> >         self.flags[`name`] = value
>                      ^^^^^^
>
> Here's the bug. It should read: self.flags[name] = value.
>
> `name` calls repr on name, which is most likely not what you want.
>
> Btw. if you want to invert a dictionary, there are probably hundreds
> of examples out there, here's a hopefully readable one:
>
> def invertdict(orig):
>     new = {}
>     for k, v in orig.items():
>         new[v] = k
>     return new
>
> Gerhard
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> reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda
x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))