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Dictionary

• Python's dictionaries are kind of hash table type.


They work like associative arrays and consist of key-
value pairs.
• Dictionaries are enclosed by curly braces ({ }) and
values can be assigned and accessed using square
braces ([])
Commonly used dict methods:
• 1. Each key of Dictionary is mapped to a value.
• 2. Each key is seperated from its value by a colon(:)
• 3. Entire dictionary is enclosed in curly braces.
• 4. Keys are unique while value s may not.
• 5.The values of dictionary can be of any type(Mutable
or immutable) but the keys must be of immutable
type(String, numbers, Tuple)
• 6. Dictionary is mutable. We can add new items or
change the value in existing item.
•
Commonly used dict methods:
1. <Dictionary Name>={‘key’:’Value’,’Key’:’Value’……}

• 2.Empty Dictionary
• D={ }
• 3. The function dict() is used to create a dictionary with no items
• D=dict()

• keys() - returns an iterable of all keys in the dictionary in the form of list.
• values() - returns an iterable of all values in the dictionary in the form of list.
• items() - returns an iterable list of (key, value) tuples i.e in the form of list of
tuples..
Example of Dictionary
dict = {'name': ‘Ram','code':1234, 'dept': ‘KVS'}
print(dict) # Prints complete dictionary
print(dict.keys()) # Prints all the keys
print(dict.values()) # Prints all the values
print(dict.items())
Output:
{'dept': 'KVS', 'code': 1234, 'name': 'Ram'}
['dept', 'code', 'name']
['KVS', 1234, 'Ram']
[('dept', 'KVS'), ('code', 1234), ('name', 'Ram')]
there is a second way to declare a dict:

sound = dict(dog='bark', cat='meow', snake='hiss')


print(sound.keys()) # Prints all the keys
print(sound.values()) # Prints all the values
Output:
['cat', 'dog', 'snake']
['meow', 'bark', 'hiss']

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