I have a dictionary:
dict = {'A':[1,2,5],'B':[3,6,13],'C':[2,3,6],'D':[4,6,8]}
I want to extract all the common elements into a new dictionary as keys with their corresponding values as the keys in dict which they are extracted from.
What I want is:
newdict = {1:['A'],2:['A','C'],3:['B','C'],4:['D'],5:['A'],6:['B','C','D'],8:['D'],13:['B']} .
I have tried to compare values of each element by copying the dictionary dict and comparing each of the elements (dict1 is copy of dict):
for i, j in zip(range(len(dict)), range(len(dict1))):
for m, n in zip(range(len(dict[i])), range(len(dict1[j]))):
if dict[i][m] == dict1[j][n]:
print(dict[i][m])
for i in range(len(dict)):
for k in range(len(dict[i])):
#print(dict[i][k])
for j in range(dict[i+1][k], len(g)):
#print(j)
if dict[i][k] == dict[i+1][j]:
print(dict[i][k])
However, I ended up with index out of range error or unable to get the proper keys even before being able to extract the common repeating values. Does anybody knows how to do this?
>Solution :
Simple solution using defaultdict (to reduce bloat code)
from collections import defaultdict
d2 = defaultdict(list)
for k,v in d.items():
for number in v:
d2[number].append(k)
>>> print(d2)
defaultdict(list,
{1: ['A'],
2: ['A', 'C'],
3: ['B', 'C'],
4: ['D'],
5: ['A'],
6: ['B', 'C', 'D'],
8: ['D'],
13: ['B']})
You can also use a normal dictionary, there’s just some more checks to add:
d2 = {}
for k,v in d.items():
for number in v:
if number in d2:
d2[number].append(k)
else:
d2[number] = [k]
Finally, avoid naming your dictionary dict, since it overwrites the built-in dict name.