Coding and Decoding in Python

[John Gordon]

In <2f4a08df-55ea-4a4e-9cc0-24e6b9f81435 at f15g2000pro.googlegroups.com> Wanderer <wanderer at dialup4less.com> writes:

> But when the program returns the value I can't get the key.

What happens when two keys have the same value?  How would you know which
key to return?

In your sample code all the values are different, but surely that won't
always be the case with real data.

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