On May 6, 10:20 am, [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.
It is not. Dictionaries provide constant time add and remove, -not- order. Are you sorting based on key or value? If you want a sorted state and sorted remove, use the 'bisect' module. > 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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
