Say I have a dictionary like so:
my_dict = {2:3, 5:6, 8:9}
Is there a way that I can switch the keys and values to get:
{3:2, 6:5, 9:8}
Say I have a dictionary like so:
my_dict = {2:3, 5:6, 8:9}
Is there a way that I can switch the keys and values to get:
{3:2, 6:5, 9:8}
my_dict2 = dict((y,x) for x,y in my_dict.iteritems())
If you are using python 2.7 or 3.x you can use a dictionary comprehension instead:
my_dict2 = {y:x for x,y in my_dict.iteritems()}
Edit
As noted in the comments by JBernardo, for python 3.x you need to use items
instead of iteritems
Use this code (trivially modified) from the accepted answer at Python reverse / invert a mapping:
dict((v,k) for k, v in my_dict.iteritems())
Note that this assumes that the values in the original dictionary are unique. Otherwise you'd end up with duplicate keys in the resulting dictionary, and that is not allowed.
And, as @wim points out, it also assumes the values are hashable. See the Python glossary if you're not sure what is and isn't hashable.
Try this:
my_dict = {2:3, 5:6, 8:9}
new_dict = {}
for k, v in my_dict.items():
new_dict[v] = k
maybe:
flipped_dict = dict(zip(my_dict.values(), my_dict.keys()))
Sometimes, the condition that the values are all unique will not hold, in which case, the answers above will destroy any duplicate values.
The following rolls the values that might be duplicates up into a list:
from itertools import count
dict([(a,[list(d.keys())[i] for i,j in zip(count(), d.values())if j==a in set(d.values())])
I'm sure there's a better (non-list-comp) method, but I had a problem with the earlier answers, so thought I'd provide my solution in case others have a similar use-case.
P.S. Don't expect the dict to remain neatly arranged after any changes to the original! This method is a one-time use only on a static dict - you have been warned!
my_dict = { my_dict[k]:k for k in my_dict}
First of all it is not guaranteed that this is possible, since the values of a dictionary can be unhashable.
In case these are not, we can use a functional approach with:
reversed_dict = dict(map(reversed, original_dict.items()))
If the values are not unique this will collide the key space in conversion. Best is to keep the keys in list when switching places
below handles this -
RvsD = dict()
for k,v in MyDict.iteritems():
RsvD.setdefault(v, []).append(k)