On May 19, 9:33 am, Jia Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see dict type can do 1-to-1 pattern, But is there any method to do > 1-to-many, many-to-1 and many-to-many pattern ?
>>> mm = {'a': ['A', 'B', 'C'], 'c': ['C', 'D', 'E'], 'b': ['A', 'D']} >>> # Now, invert the relation >>> mmr = {} >>> for k, seq in mm.items(): ... for elem in seq: ... mmr.setdefault(elem, []).append(k) >>> mmr {'A': ['a', 'b'], 'C': ['a', 'c'], 'B': ['a'], 'E': ['c'], 'D': ['c', 'b']} > What about using some > Serialized objects? from pickle import loads, dumps d = dict(a=dumps(someobj), b=dumps(anotherobj)) obj = loads(d['a']) Raymond -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list