Is there a way to type ".-" and produce "a"? (python)

Question

New to coding but had an idea. I'm trying to make a morse code translator. I can get it from the letter to morse but not the other way round.

Current code example:

A = ".-"
B = "-..."
[etc.]

Print (A, B)

Output: .- -...

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Use a dictionary to store the values using the Morse strings as keys.

d = {'.-': 'A', '-...': 'B'}
morse = '.- -...'.split(' ')
message = []

for c in morse:
message.append(d[c])

print(''.join(message))

Answer 2

Use dictionaries. They are collections of key-value pairs.

#The string before ':' is the key and the string after is the value.
morse = {"A" : ".-", "B" = "-..." , ".-" : "A", "-..." : "B"}
#from letter to morse
print(morse["A"] + morse["B"])
#from morse to letter
print(morse[".-"] + morse["-..."]

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Answer 3

Thanks guys :)