Pythonic Way to reverse nested dictionaries

Question

I have a nested dictionary of people and item ratings, with people as the key. people may or may not share items. Example:

{
 \'Bob\' : {\'item1\':3, \'item2         


        

Answer 1

If you want just access reverse nested dictionaries, Save memory if the dictionary is too large to reverse.

class mdict2(dict):
    def __init__(self, parent, key1):
        self.parent = parent
        self.key1 = key1

    def __getitem__(self, key2):
        return self.parent.mirror[key2][self.key1]


class mdict(dict):
    def __init__(self, mirror):
        self.mirror = mirror

    def __getitem__(self, key):
        return mdict2(self, key)

d0 = {
 'Bob' : {'item1':3, 'item2':8, 'item3':6},
 'Jim' : {'item1':6, 'item4':7},
 'Amy' : {'item1':6,'item2':5,'item3':9,'item4':2}
}
d1 = mdict(d0)

d0['Amy']['item1'] == d1['item1']['Amy']
# True