Problem using a dictionary [SOLVED]

[TrickWithAKnife]

I'm having problems with converting a short string to another short string using a dictionary. The full error message is at the bottom of the post.
It's confusing me, because it's copied from some existing code that works fine.

The value of destination_card_name is "a".
What I would expect to see from this is destination_card_name_in_hiragana should have the value "あ" at the end.

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# From a label:
    $ destination_card_name_in_hiragana = convert_romaji_to_kana(destination_card_name, hiragana_list) # Line 325


init python:
    def convert_romaji_to_kana(romaji, kana_list):
        keys = kana_list.keys();
        if romaji in keys:
            kana = dict[romaji] # Line 350
        return kana 
        
        
    hiragana_list = {
        "a" : "あ",
        "i" : "い",
        "u" : "う",
        "e" : "え",
        "o" : "お"}  

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
File "D:\Renpy\renpy\execution.py", line 288, in run
node.execute()
File "D:\Renpy\renpy\ast.py", line 718, in execute
renpy.python.py_exec_bytecode(self.code.bytecode, self.hide, store=self.store)
File "D:\Renpy\renpy\python.py", line 1297, in py_exec_bytecode
exec bytecode in globals, locals
File "game/Flashcards.rpy", line 325, in <module>
$ destination_card_name_in_hiragana = convert_romaji_to_kana(destination_card_name, hiragana_list)
File "game/Flashcards.rpy", line 350, in convert_romaji_to_kana
kana = dict[romaji]
TypeError: 'type' object has no attribute '__getitem__'

Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
Ren'Py 6.15.6.372
A Ren'Py Game 0.0

[RangerDanger]

dict is a reserved word in python that refers to the python dictionary type.

So code like:

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dict[key]

will throw an exception.

You'll need to change line 350 so that you are looking up the key in a dictionary object, like kana_list.

[Anima]

This is how you can do it. If the romanji is not in the list it will return None.

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init python:
    def convert_romaji_to_kana(romaji, kana_list):
        return kana_list.get(romanji)

[TrickWithAKnife]

It's working perfectly now. Thanks a lot.