"G. Völkl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>I use a dictionary:
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>phone = {'mike':10,'sue':8,'john':3}
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>phone['mike']   --> 10
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>I want to know who has number 3?
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>3 -->  'john'
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>How to get it in the python way ?

If you need to do this a lot, just keep two dictionaries, where the keys in
each are the values in the other.

  reversephone = dict( zip( phone.values(), phone.keys() ) )
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