[Tutor] two way dictionary

[ingo janssen]

for a little cherrypy app I'm working on I wrote the piece of code
below. Goal is to obscure the first part of a directory path(s) the
user is browsing. Replacing the first part of the path with an alias
works fine, but for the application it has to work both ways. I know
how to swap the keys and values of the dict but that's not elegant as
it can be changed over time.
Is there a dict that works "both ways"?
Could a dict be constructed from the dict class that works both ways?
Is writing code around a list of tuples more elegant? home = [('one' ,
"c:\\gnuwin32"), ('two' , "c:\\dell")]
Did I miss the completely obvious way to deal with the problem?


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import os

home={
   'one':"c:\\gnuwin32",
   'two':"c:\\dell",
}

def fetch_alias(path, home_dict):
   path = os.path.normpath(path)
   pathlist = path.split(os.sep)
   if pathlist[0] in home_dict:
       pathlist[0] = home_dict[pathlist[0]]
       newpath = os.sep.join(pathlist)
       return os.path.normpath(newpath)
   else:
       print "fail"

path='two\\truus\\tovert\\konijn'
print fetch_alias(path, home)

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Ingo