>>>>> Andre Engels <[email protected]> (AE) wrote:
>AE> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:02 AM, lone_eagle <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Can someone suggest a easy method to do the inverse of dict(zip(x,y)) >>> to get two lists x and y? >>> >>> So, if x and y are two lists, it is easier to make a dictionary using >>> d = dict(zip(x,y)), but if I have d of the form, d = {x1:y1, >>> x2:y2, ...}, what is there any trick to get lists x = [x1, x2, ...] >>> and y = [y1, y2, ...] >AE> x = d.keys() >AE> y = [d[e] for d in x] >AE> y = d.values() might also work, but I am not sure whether d.keys() and >AE> d.values() are guaranteed to use the same order. Yes, they are if the dictionary is not changed in the meantime (not even inserting and removing the same thing). See the library documentation, section dict. -- Piet van Oostrum <[email protected]> URL: http://pietvanoostrum.com [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] Private email: [email protected] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
