Get key by value in dictionary

Question

I made a function which will look up ages in a Dictionary and show the matching name:

dictionary = {\'george\' : 16, \'amber\' : 19}
search_age          


        

Answer 1

one line version: (i is an old dictionary, p is a reversed dictionary)

explanation : i.keys() and i.values() returns two lists with keys and values of the dictionary respectively. The zip function has the ability to tie together lists to produce a dictionary.

p = dict(zip(i.values(),i.keys()))

Warning : This will work only if the values are hashable and unique.