下面是一个在python2和python3中都适用的解决方案:

dict((v, k) for k, v in list.items())[search_age]

直到[search_age]的部分构造反向字典(其中值是键，反之亦然)。 你可以创建一个helper方法来缓存这个反向字典，就像这样:

def find_name(age, _rev_lookup=dict((v, k) for k, v in ages_by_name.items())):
    return _rev_lookup[age]

或者更一般的是一个工厂，它会为你的一个或多个列表创建一个按年龄查找的方法

def create_name_finder(ages_by_name):
    names_by_age = dict((v, k) for k, v in ages_by_name.items())
    def find_name(age):
      return names_by_age[age]

所以你可以这样做:

find_teen_by_age = create_name_finder({'george':16,'amber':19})
...
find_teen_by_age(search_age)

注意，我将list重命名为ages_by_name，因为前者是预定义的类型。

如果希望根据值查找键，可以使用字典推导式创建查找字典，然后使用该字典从值中查找键。

lookup = {value: key for key, value in self.data}
lookup[value]

没有。Dict不是这样使用的。

dictionary = {'george': 16, 'amber': 19}
search_age = input("Provide age")
for name, age in dictionary.items():  # for name, age in dictionary.iteritems():  (for Python 2.x)
    if age == search_age:
        print(name)

以下是我对这个问题的看法。：） 我刚刚开始学习Python，所以我称之为:

“初学者可以理解的”解决方案。

#Code without comments.

list1 = {'george':16,'amber':19, 'Garry':19}
search_age = raw_input("Provide age: ")
print
search_age = int(search_age)

listByAge = {}

for name, age in list1.items():
    if age == search_age:
        age = str(age)
        results = name + " " +age
        print results

        age2 = int(age)
        listByAge[name] = listByAge.get(name,0)+age2

print
print listByAge

.

#Code with comments.
#I've added another name with the same age to the list.
list1 = {'george':16,'amber':19, 'Garry':19}
#Original code.
search_age = raw_input("Provide age: ")
print
#Because raw_input gives a string, we need to convert it to int,
#so we can search the dictionary list with it.
search_age = int(search_age)

#Here we define another empty dictionary, to store the results in a more 
#permanent way.
listByAge = {}

#We use double variable iteration, so we get both the name and age 
#on each run of the loop.
for name, age in list1.items():
    #Here we check if the User Defined age = the age parameter 
    #for this run of the loop.
    if age == search_age:
        #Here we convert Age back to string, because we will concatenate it 
        #with the person's name. 
        age = str(age)
        #Here we concatenate.
        results = name + " " +age
        #If you want just the names and ages displayed you can delete
        #the code after "print results". If you want them stored, don't...
        print results

        #Here we create a second variable that uses the value of
        #the age for the current person in the list.
        #For example if "Anna" is "10", age2 = 10,
        #integer value which we can use in addition.
        age2 = int(age)
        #Here we use the method that checks or creates values in dictionaries.
        #We create a new entry for each name that matches the User Defined Age
        #with default value of 0, and then we add the value from age2.
        listByAge[name] = listByAge.get(name,0)+age2

#Here we print the new dictionary with the users with User Defined Age.
print
print listByAge

.

#Results
Running: *\test.py (Thu Jun 06 05:10:02 2013)

Provide age: 19

amber 19
Garry 19

{'amber': 19, 'Garry': 19}

Execution Successful!

如果你想要名字和年龄，你应该使用.items()，它会给你key (key, value)元组:

for name, age in mydict.items():
    if age == search_age:
        print name

您可以在for循环中将元组解包为两个单独的变量，然后匹配年龄。

如果你通常要根据年龄查找，而且没有两个人的年龄相同，你还应该考虑颠倒字典:

{16: 'george', 19: 'amber'}

所以你可以通过这样做来查找这个名字

mydict[search_age]

我一直称它为mydict而不是list，因为list是内置类型的名称，你不应该将这个名称用于其他任何类型。

你甚至可以在一行中得到给定年龄的所有人的列表:

[name for name, age in mydict.items() if age == search_age]

或者如果每个年龄只有一个人:

next((name for name, age in mydict.items() if age == search_age), None)

如果没有这个年龄的人，就会给你None。

最后，如果字典很长并且你使用的是Python 2，你应该考虑使用.iteritems()而不是像Cat Plus Plus在他的回答中所做的那样使用.items()，因为它不需要复制列表。

你可以通过使用dict.keys()， dict.values()和list.index()方法来获取key，参见下面的代码示例:

names_dict = {'george':16,'amber':19}
search_age = int(raw_input("Provide age"))
key = names_dict.keys()[names_dict.values().index(search_age)]