Comments on: State code mappings for Python http://cmichae.acm.jhu.edu/blog/2006/12/29/state-code-mappings-for-python/ Finance, Technology, Design, Photography and other things that interest me. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:09:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: cmichae http://cmichae.acm.jhu.edu/blog/2006/12/29/state-code-mappings-for-python/#comment-2029 cmichae Sat, 30 Dec 2006 05:37:50 +0000 http://cmichae.acm.jhu.edu/blog/2006/12/29/state-code-mappings-for-python/#comment-2029 Paddy, Thanks for the input! A list-comprehension to get the reverse dictionary is always a good idea, provided you need both dictionaries of course. As far as the quotes: Unfortunately, Wordpress seems to think it should help with the double quotes too! The only solution was to change them to "s, and I've removed the part of your comment that reposted with double quotes, as it was also changed. Paddy,

Thanks for the input! A list-comprehension to get the reverse dictionary is always a good idea, provided you need both dictionaries of course.

As far as the quotes: Unfortunately, Wordpress seems to think it should help with the double quotes too! The only solution was to change them to "s, and I’ve removed the part of your comment that reposted with double quotes, as it was also changed.

]]> By: Paddy http://cmichae.acm.jhu.edu/blog/2006/12/29/state-code-mappings-for-python/#comment-2024 Paddy Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:42:58 +0000 http://cmichae.acm.jhu.edu/blog/2006/12/29/state-code-mappings-for-python/#comment-2024 I have added a line that inverts the state_to_code dictionary to create the code_to_state dictionary from the one source so they should always track. <code>>>> code_to_state = dict((code, state) for state, code in state_to_code.iteritems())</code> P.S. something is trying to 'help out' and has changed all your single quoted strings to use matching opening and closing quote characters which is a pain for cutting and pasting your example. I used double quotes in my reply above but i wouldn't be surprised if the blogging software tried to 'help out' again! - Paddy. I have added a line that inverts the state_to_code dictionary to create the code_to_state dictionary from the one source so they should always track.

>>> code_to_state = dict((code, state) for state, code in state_to_code.iteritems())

P.S. something is trying to ‘help out’ and has changed all your single quoted strings to use matching opening and closing quote characters which is a pain for cutting and pasting your example. I used double quotes in my reply above but i wouldn’t be surprised if the blogging software tried to ‘help out’ again!

- Paddy.

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