How can I get dictionary key as variable directly in Python (not by searching from value)?

Question

Sorry for this basic question but my searches on this are not turning up anything other than how to get a dictionary\'s key based on its value which I would prefer not to us

Answer 1

What I sometimes do is I create another dictionary just to be able whatever I feel I need to access as string. Then I iterate over multiple dictionaries matching keys to build e.g. a table with first column as description.

dict_names = {'key1': 'Text 1', 'key2': 'Text 2'}
dict_values = {'key1': 0, 'key2': 1} 

for key, value in dict_names.items():
    print('{0} {1}'.format(dict_names[key], dict_values[key])

You can easily do for a huge amount of dictionaries to match data (I like the fact that with dictionary you can always refer to something well known as the key name)

yes I use dictionaries to store results of functions so I don't need to run these functions everytime I call them just only once and then access the results anytime.

EDIT: in my example the key name does not really matter (I personally like using the same key names as it is easier to go pick a single value from any of my matching dictionaries), just make sure the number of keys in each dictionary is the same