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

Consider using Pandas. As stated in William McKinney's "Python for Data Analysis'

Another way to think about a Series is as a fixed-length, ordered dict, as it is a mapping of index values to data values. It can be used in many contexts where you might use a dict.

import pandas as pd
list = {'george':16,'amber':19}
lookup_list = pd.Series(list)

To query your series do the following:

lookup_list[lookup_list.values == 19]

Which yields:

Out[1]: 
amber    19
dtype: int64

If you need to do anything else with the output transforming the answer into a list might be useful:

answer = lookup_list[lookup_list.values == 19].index
answer = pd.Index.tolist(answer)