'inverting' a dict
Irmen de Jong
irmen at -NOSPAM-REMOVETHIS-xs4all.nl
Tue Dec 30 12:30:56 EST 2003
Hi
I have this dict that maps a name to a sequence of other names.
I want to have it reversed, i.e., map the other names each to
the key they belong to (yes, the other names are unique and
they only occur once). Like this:
{ "key1": ("value1", "value2"), "key2": ("value3,) }
-->
{ "value1": "key1", "value2": "key1", "value3": "key2" }
What I'm doing is using a nested loop:
dict2={}
for (key,value) in dict1.items():
for name in value:
dict2[name] = key
which is simple enough, but I'm hearing this little voice in
the back of my head saying "there's a simpler solution".
Is there? What is it? ;-)
Thanks
--Irmen.
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