Looking up a dictionary _key_ by key?
Ben Finney
ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Tue Jun 23 20:33:50 EDT 2015
Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> writes:
> Is there a way of getting the key used by the dictionary, short of
> storing a reference to it in the value, or using a second dictionary?
The dictionary knows its keys and can provide them on request. Call the
‘dict.keys’ method to get them as a collection.
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