Keyerror problem

[Gerhard Häring]

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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