What is the most pythonic way to map two different strings, to act as one?

The problem

Imagine two services running:

Service 1 has two statuses: ACTIVE/INACTIVE

Service 2 has two statuses: RUNNING/TERMINATED

We want to do a simple status comparison as:

service1_status = get_service2_status()
service2_status = get_service2_status()

if service1_status == service2_status:
   // They match!
else:
   // They don't match!

A working solution

This is a relatively simple task of course. A working solution would be something like this:

service1_status = get_service2_status()
service2_status = get_service2_status()

if service1_status == 'ACTIVE' and service2_status == 'RUNNING':
   return "They match!"
elif service1_status == 'INACTIVE' and service2_status == 'TERMINATED':
   return "They match!"
else:
   return "They don't match!"

The problem – but more difficult

Now imagine this example a hundred different statuses for each service instead of two.

The if statement would be overwhelming. I am looking for a more elegant way to program this. e.g:

matching_tuples = [('x1', 'y1'), ('x2', 'y2'), ..., ('x100', 'y100')]

service1_status = get_service2_status()
service2_status = get_service2_status()

if (service1_status, service2_status) in matching_tuples:
   return "They match!"
elif:
   return "They don't match!"

This works and is fine. I wonder though if there is a better, more pythonic and elegant way to marry two strings together and compare them.

>Solution :

I also have to map keys from the backend and frontend.
For mapping, I usually use a dictionary you can add as many keys as you want like this.

MapService1to2 = {
    "ACTIVE": "RUNNING",
    "INACTIVE": "TERMINATED"
}

service1_status = get_service2_status()
service2_status = get_service2_status()

if MapService1to2[service1_status] == service2_status:
    print("They match")
else:
    print("They don't match")