Dicts for Mapping

mapping_example.py

#! /usr/bin/env python
"""
Using dictionaries for mapping lookups
See: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_dictionary.htm
"""

# Use a Python Dictionary for mapping
mapping = {
'CB' : 'Cobra',
'foo' : 'bar',
1 : 'one'
}  

# Some sample data for what we want to map
data = 'CB'

# Printing mapped values
print "%s maps to %s" % (data, mapping[data])
print "1 maps to %r" % mapping[1]