Compsci 06, Spring 2011 Test Redux: Dictionary

You're given code that creates a dictionary of students for lab attendance. The keys are student names, the value for each student is a list of labs the student has attended, with the labs labeled by "lab1", "lab2", "lab3", and so on. For example:

  labs = {
     "Fred"   : ["lab1", "lab2", "lab4", "lab6"],
     "Ethel"  : ["lab1", "lab2", "lab3", "lab4", "lab5", "lab6"],
     "Alex"   : ["lab3"],
     "Mary"   : ["lab4", "lab3", "lab1", "lab6"]
  }

Write the function labify that has as a parameter a dictionary in the format above and which returns a dictionary in which each possible lab that appears in some value list in attend is the key. The value associated with this key is a list of strings: the people who attended that lab. Each list of strings should be sorted alphabetically.

For example, for the data above the call labify(labs) should return the dictionary diagrammed below:

  {
      "lab1" : ["Ethel", "Fred", "Mary"],
      "lab2" : ["Ethel", "Fred"],
      "lab3" : ["Alex", "Ethel", "Mary"],
      "lab4" : ["Ethel", "Fred", "Mary"],
      "lab5" : ["Ethel"],
      "lab6" : ["Ethel", "Fred", "Mary"]
  }

Write your code below:

   def labify(attend):
       """
       attend is a dictionary in format name : [strings of labs attended],
       return a dictionary in which key is a string "labX" for all named
       labs that appear in values of attend, value for "labX" is
       alphabetized list of people attending that lab
       """