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1.3 Python Tutorial 13

This document discusses dictionaries in Python. Dictionaries store data as key-value pairs rather than using sequential indexes like lists. The document provides an example dictionary storing a person's name and address with keys like "f_name" and values like "Derek". It then demonstrates various operations on dictionaries like accessing values, changing values, adding/deleting keys, and iterating over key-value pairs. The document poses a problem to create a list of customer dictionaries from user input and provides a solution using a while loop.

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1.3 Python Tutorial 13

This document discusses dictionaries in Python. Dictionaries store data as key-value pairs rather than using sequential indexes like lists. The document provides an example dictionary storing a person's name and address with keys like "f_name" and values like "Derek". It then demonstrates various operations on dictionaries like accessing values, changing values, adding/deleting keys, and iterating over key-value pairs. The document poses a problem to create a list of customer dictionaries from user input and provides a solution using a while loop.

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VIDEO 13 : Dictionaries

While lists organize data based on sequential indexes Dictionaries instead use key / value
pairs. A key / value pair could be fName : "Derek" where fName is the key and "Derek" is the
value. Here is some code to help this make sense.

CODE

# Create a Dictionary about me


derek_dict = {“f_name": "Derek", “l_name": "Banas", "address": "123 Main St"}

# Get a value with the key


print("May name :", derek_dict["f_name"])

# Change a value with the key


derek_dict["address"] = "215 North St"

# Dictionaries may not print out in the order created


# since they are unordered
print(derek_dict)

# Add a new key value


derek_dict['city'] = 'Pittsburgh'

# Check if a key exists


print("Is there a city :", "city" in derek_dict)

# Get the list of values


print(derek_dict.values())

# Get the list of keys


print(derek_dict.keys())

# Get the key and value with items()


for k, v in derek_dict.items():
print(k, v)

# Get gets a value associated with a key or the default


print(derek_dict.get(“m_name", "Not Here"))

# Delete a key value


del derek_dict["f_name"]

# Loop through the dictionary keys


for i in derek_dict:
print(i)

# Delete all entries


derek_dict.clear()

# List for holding Dictionaries


employees = []
# Input employee data
f_name, l_name = input("Enter Employee Name : ").split()

employees.append({'f_name': f_name, 'l_name': l_name})

print(employees)

Python Problem for you to Solve

Create an array of customer dictionaries and the output should look like this :

Enter Customer (Yes/No) : y


Enter Customer Name : Derek Banas
Enter Customer (Yes/No) : y
Enter Customer Name : Sally Smith
Enter Customer (Yes/No) : n
Derek Banas
Sally Smith

Solution

# Create customer array outside the for so it isn't local


# to the while loop
customers = []

while True:

# Cut off the 1st letter to cover if the user


# types a n or y
create_entry = input("Enter Customer (Yes/No) : ")
create_entry = create_entry[0].lower()

if create_entry == "n":

# Leave the while loop when n is entered


break
else:

# Get the customer name by splitting at the space


f_name, l_name = input("Enter Customer Name : ").split()

# Add the dictionary to the array


customers.append({‘f_name': f_name, ‘l_name': l_name})

# Print out customer list


for cust in customers:
print(cust[‘f_name'], cust[‘l_name'])

That’s it for this video. In the next part of this tutorial we will cover recursive functions, which
are functions that execute themselves.

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