looking up dictionaries by values
Sandman
enjoylife_95135 at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 10 21:26:50 EST 2005
Hi there,
I'm still a bit new to Python, and had a question.
I have a dictionary that looks like:
PWD = \
{
"root": 0,
"joe": 200,
"susan": 201,
..
}
In other words, the values are unique as well as the keys. I've run
into a situation where I need to lookup the item by value. So given
201, I need to say the key is really susan.
Is there a way to do this that does not traverse the entire dictionary
multiple times?
Thanks.
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