Efficient, Pythonic bidirectional map implementation and related functionality.

• is in use by several teams at Google, Venmo, CERN, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Bloomberg, Two Sigma, and others
• has carefully designed APIs for safety, simplicity, flexibility, and ergonomics
• is CPython-, PyPy-, Python 2-, and Python 3-compatible
• has extensive test coverage (including property-based tests and benchmarks) run continuously on all supported Python versions and OSes
• integrates natively with Python’s collections interfaces
• is implemented in concise, well-factored, well-documented pure Python that leverages a number of advanced language features¹

Python 2 support will be dropped in a future release.

See python3statement.org for more info.

pip install bidict

>>> from bidict import bidict
>>> element_by_symbol = bidict({'H': 'hydrogen'})
>>> element_by_symbol['H']
'hydrogen'
>>> element_by_symbol.inverse['hydrogen']
'H'

For more usage documentation, head to the intro² and proceed from there.

If you are thinking of using bidict in your work, or if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, I'd love to know about your use case and provide as much voluntary support for it as possible.

Please feel free to leave a message in the chatroom or open a new issue on GitHub. You can search through existing issues before creating a new one in case your questions or concerns have been adressed there already.

If your use case requires a greater level of support, contractual support for bidict can be obtained through the Tidelift subscription.

If you use bidict, and especially if your usage or your organization is significant in some way, please let me know.

You can:

• star bidict on GitHub (the "star" button is at the top-right)
• create an issue (preferred)
• leave a message in the chat room
• email me

See the changelog³ for a history of notable changes to bidict.

Subscribe to bidict releases on libraries.io to be notified when new versions of bidict are released. Alternatively, on GitHub, click "Watch" and choose "Releases".

One of the most rewarding things about bidict is the outsized amount of advanced Python it covers in light of its small codebase.

Check out learning-from-bidict⁴ if you're interested in learning more.

Bidict is currently a one-person operation maintained on a voluntary basis with no other sponsorship. Your help would be most welcome!

One of the most valuable ways to contribute to bidict and to explore some advanced Python⁵ while you're at it is to review bidict's relatively small codebase.

Please create an issue or pull request with any improvements you'd propose or any other results you found. (Submitting a "Nothing-to-merge" PR with feedback in inline code comments or a Review results issue both work well.)

You can also +1 this issue to sign up to give feedback on future proposed changes that are in need of a reviewer.

Bidict is the product of hundreds of hours of unpaid, voluntary work.

If bidict has helped you accomplish your work, especially work you've been paid for, please consider chipping in toward the costs of bidict's maintenance and development and/or ask your organization to do the same.

If you're viewing this on https://bidict.readthedocs.io, note that multiple versions of the documentation are available, and you can choose a different version using the popup menu at the bottom-right. Please make sure you're viewing the version of the documentation that corresponds to the version of bidict you'd like to use.

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