Reverse / invert a dictionary mapping

Question

Given a dictionary like so:

my_map = {\'a\': 1, \'b\': 2}

How can one invert this map to get:

inv_map = {1: \'a\', 2: \'b\'         


        

Answer 1

I wrote this with the help of cycle 'for' and method '.get()' and I changed the name 'map' of the dictionary to 'map1' because 'map' is a function.

def dict_invert(map1):
    inv_map = {} # new dictionary
    for key in map1.keys():
        inv_map[map1.get(key)] = key
    return inv_map