If I have a collection of dicts like:
john = {'id': 1, 'name': "John Cleese", 'year': 1939}
graham = {'id': 2, 'name': "Graham Chapman", 'year': 1941}
I could store all of them in a list. But for easy lookup, I might store
all these in a dict instead, like
people = {'1': john, '2': graham}
or maybe
people = {'John Cleese': john, 'Graham Chapman': graham}
or whatever key I might choose. Now, first of all, it seems a bit
annoying that I have to keep that redundant data in the second dict that
is already in the individual dicts within people. Secondly (and this is
my question), it is annoying that I have to choose one of several
unambiguous keys as a key.
I would like to be able to say:
people['1'].year
in some case and in other cases I want to say
people['John Cleese'].year
That is, sometimes I have the name at hand and would like to look up
data based on that. Other times, I have the ID at hand and would like to
look up data based on that instead.
Also, I would like if I didn't have to keep the key data both in the
dict of dicts and in the dicts :)
If I could just say to Python: john and graham (and ...) are all a part
of a "superdict" and either their id or their name can be used as keys.
Can I do that somehow?
/David
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