I can find plenty of resources to create a dictionary with multiple keys per value, but I can't find how to set one up.
https://gist.github.com/PyDann/0440454db5a2218f30f2
I'm just passing a string to check of its existence in mydict. I thought I had it set up right but it fails.
Thanks for any help! ; )
Do you mean like this?
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
mydict = {('Sunny', 'Clear') : '☀️', 'Cloudy' : '☁️'}
for key, value in mydict.items():
for k in key:
mydict[k] = value
print mydict['Sunny']
print mydict['Clear']
print mydict['Cloudy']
So my script takes the weather description out of the daily yahoo forecast and passes it to this function. Instead of writing 100 lines checking 'if description == ...". I figured a dictionary that I could just simple check the string against and return a value from.
I updated my comments in the gist... I believe that is a working solution.
I've added a comment too; modifying the original dict makes lookup faster, and inheritance is a clean solution for the 'smart default dict' function that ccc wrote.
Note that
d['one'] = x
d['two'] = x
will only 'store' one copy of the value x, but if x is immutable, it will be hard to tell that it really is only one copy. (This is just they way Python works)