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

You can do this by casting the dict keys and values to list. It can also be be done for items.

Example:

f = {'one': 'police', 'two': 'oranges', 'three': 'car'}
list(f.keys())[0] = 'one'
list(f.keys())[1] = 'two'

list(f.values())[0] = 'police'
list(f.values())[1] = 'oranges'