Dictionary data types question

[Erik Max Francis]

Alonde wrote:

> dict={"one":1}
> How when I entered 1 and it return "one"?

Python dictionaries are one-way mappings; there's no atomic means to
say, "Which key does this value correspond to?"  You could manually
search through the entries by calling D.items() or by iterating through
the sequence looking for the first value you wish.

Many keys can point to the same value (either by equality or by
identity); for instance, what would you expect to happen if you passed
it this dictionary?

	d = {'one': 1, 'two': 1, 'three': 1}

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