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Re: Looking up a dictionary _key_ by key?

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Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there a way of getting the key used by the dictionary, short of
> storing a reference to it in the value, or using a second dictionary?

The dictionary knows its keys and can provide them on request. Call the
‘dict.keys’ method to get them as a collection.

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Re: Looking up a dictionary _key_ by key? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-06-24 10:33 +1000

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