Chinese characters as dictionary KEY

Question

I am trying to create a dictionary lookup variable like this:

lookup = {
    u'安徽省':'Anhui',
    u'福建省':'Fujian',
    u'甘肃省':'Gansu',
    u'广东省':'Guangdong',
    u'贵州省':'Guizhou',
    u'浙江省':'Zhejiang'
}

I am calling an API and it returns the result in Chinese. I want to simply have a look up table to convert it to the English name.

So my code is:

api_response = api.geocode(address, isChina)
if len(api_response['Response']['View']) > 0:
        state = lookup[api_response['Response']['View'][0]['Result'][0]['Location']['Address']['State']]

But the error I get is:

2019-07-29 15:35:13.193 | ERROR    | __main__:<module>:148 - Traceback (most recent call last):   File "format.py", line 93, in <module>
    new_dict = doStepByStepCleanse(row, isChina, line_count)   File "format.py", line 43, in doStepByStepCleanse
    state =  lookup[api_response['Response']['View'][0]['Result'][0]['Location']['Address']['State']] KeyError: '山东省'

Is this possible to achieve?

Answer 1

If you read the error, I'm not sure you've defined all possible keys that the API returns. There's nothing special about the Chinese characters being in the dictionary, just that KeyError: '山东省' means that it really isn't there in your dictionary

If you're not guaranteed to have all known keys ahead of time, you should fallback to getting a default value

lookup.get(api_response['Response']['View'][0]['Result'][0]['Location']['Address']['State']], "Unknown")