Reverse / invert a dictionary mapping

Question

Given a dictionary like so:

my_map = {\'a\': 1, \'b\': 2}

How can one invert this map to get:

inv_map = {1: \'a\', 2: \'b\'         


        

Answer 1

If values aren't unique AND may be a hash (one dimension):

for k, v in myDict.items():
    if len(v) > 1:
        for item in v:
            invDict[item] = invDict.get(item, [])
            invDict[item].append(k)
    else:
        invDict[v] = invDict.get(v, [])
        invDict[v].append(k)

And with a recursion if you need to dig deeper then just one dimension:

def digList(lst):
    temp = []
    for item in lst:
        if type(item) is list:
            temp.append(digList(item))
        else:
            temp.append(item)
    return set(temp)

for k, v in myDict.items():
    if type(v) is list:
        items = digList(v)
        for item in items:
            invDict[item] = invDict.get(item, [])
            invDict[item].append(k)
    else:
        invDict[v] = invDict.get(v, [])
        invDict[v].append(k)