On May 6, 5:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi - further to my earlier query regarding partial matches (which with
> all your replies enabled me to advance my understanding, thanks), I
> now need to reverse a dict.
>
> I know how to reverse a list (with the reverse method - very handy),
> but it doesn't seem possible to reverse a dict.
>
> I suspect what I need to do is somehow go from:
>
> thelist=list(thedict)
> thelist.reverse()
> thedict=dict(thelist)
>
> Does anyone know how to convert / or reverse a dict?
>
> thanks
>
> kb.
Issue 1: A dictionary is not ordered so cannot be reversed, as is.
Saw something like this though:
info = {"PHP":"17th May",
"Perl":"15th June",
"Java":"7th June",
"Python":"26th May",
"Tcl":"12th July",
"MySQL":"24th May"}
topics = info.keys()
topics.sort()
topics.reverse()
for topic in topics:
print "Next",topic,"course starts",info[topic]
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