[Tutor] How to print corresponding keys in Dictionary

[Alan Gauld]

On 24/10/11 14:18, Dave Angel wrote:

> def getkey(dictionary, value):
>    for key, val in dictionary.items():
>       if val == value:
>          return key
>
>
> Note that if there are multiple keys with the same value, my function
> would get only the first. It wouldn't be hard to modify the function to
> return a list of matching keys.

For fun:

def getKeys(aDict, aValue):
     return [key for key,val in aDict if val == aValue]

HTH,


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