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Cody Barber
Cody Barber

Reputation: 5

can you have more than 1 dictionary key that links to the same value

I was wondering if its possible to have a dictionary in which there is 2 keys for the same item. I don't know if I have explained that well but an example of what I mean is bellow

dictionary = {"key_1","key_2" : "value_1"}

This would have 2 keys but lead to the same value

Is there any way i can do this?

Thanks for the help

Upvotes: 0

Views: 34

Answers (2)

Pulkit Jatav
Pulkit Jatav

Reputation: 114

In Python, keys are the elements/items of the dictionary while values are the values paired with these keys, so yeah, you can have two keys whose values are equal but it would be like -

dictionary = {"key_1":"value_1", "key_2":"value_1"}

In case you are asking for a way to use two items together as a key then the answer is tuples -

dictionary = { ("key_1","key_2"): "value_1" }

Upvotes: 1

Tarik
Tarik

Reputation: 11209

Yes:

dictionary = {"key_1": "value_1", "key_2" : "value_1"}

Upvotes: 1

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