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Python Dictionary

The document provides an overview of Python dictionaries, including their structure, how to create them, and methods for accessing keys, values, and items. It highlights that dictionaries are ordered as of Python 3.7 and cannot have duplicate keys. Examples demonstrate dictionary creation, item access, and the use of methods like keys(), values(), and items().

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Python Dictionary

The document provides an overview of Python dictionaries, including their structure, how to create them, and methods for accessing keys, values, and items. It highlights that dictionaries are ordered as of Python 3.7 and cannot have duplicate keys. Examples demonstrate dictionary creation, item access, and the use of methods like keys(), values(), and items().

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python-dictionary

October 23, 2024

[1]: thisdict = {
"brand": "Ford",
"model": "Mustang",
"year": 1964
}
print(thisdict)

{'brand': 'Ford', 'model': 'Mustang', 'year': 1964}

[3]: thisdict = {
"brand": "Ford",
"model": "Mustang",
"year": 1964
}
print(thisdict["brand"])
print(thisdict["year"])

Ford
1964
Ordered or Unordered? As of Python version 3.7, dictionaries are ordered. In Python 3.6 and
earlier, dictionaries are unordered.
When we say that dictionaries are ordered, it means that the items have a defined order, and that
order will not change.
Unordered means that the items do not have a defined order, you cannot refer to an item by using
an index.
[4]: my_dict = {}
my_dict['a'] = 1
my_dict['b'] = 2
my_dict['c'] = 3
my_dict['d'] = 4
my_dict

[4]: {'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3, 'd': 4}

Duplicates Not Allowed Dictionaries cannot have two items with the same key:

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[5]: thisdict = {
"brand": "Ford",
"model": "Mustang",
"year": 1964,
"year": 2024
}
print(thisdict)

{'brand': 'Ford', 'model': 'Mustang', 'year': 2024}

[6]: print(len(thisdict))

[7]: thisdict = {
"brand": "Ford",
"model": "Mustang",
"year": 1964
}
print(type(thisdict))

<class 'dict'>

[8]: #The dict() Constructor


#It is also possible to use the dict() constructor to make a dictionary.
thisdict = dict(name = "John", age = 36, country = "Norway")
print(thisdict)

{'name': 'John', 'age': 36, 'country': 'Norway'}

[9]: #Accessing Items


#You can access the items of a dictionary by referring to its key name, inside␣
↪square brackets:

thisdict = {
"brand": "Ford",
"model": "Mustang",
"year": 1964
}
x = thisdict["model"]
print(x)

Mustang

[10]: # by using get()


thisdict.get("year")

[10]: 1964

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[11]: # The keys() method will return a list of all the keys in the dictionary.
thisdict.keys()

[11]: dict_keys(['brand', 'model', 'year'])

[12]: car = {
"brand": "Ford",
"model": "Mustang",
"year": 1964,
"yr" : 1964
}

x = car.keys()

print(x) #before the change

car["color"] = "white"

print(x) #after the change

dict_keys(['brand', 'model', 'year'])


dict_keys(['brand', 'model', 'year', 'color'])

[13]: car = {
"brand": "Ford",
"model": "Mustang",
"year": 1964,
"yr" : 1964
}
print(car)

{'brand': 'Ford', 'model': 'Mustang', 'year': 1964, 'yr': 1964}

[ ]: #The values() method will return a list of all the values in the dictionary.
x = thisdict.values()
print(x)

[ ]: car = {
"brand": "Ford",
"model": "Mustang",
"year": 1964
}

x = car.values()

print(x) #before the change

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car["year"] = 2020

print(x) #after the change

[ ]: # The items() method will return each item in a dictionary, as tuples in a list.
x = thisdict.items()
print(x)

[ ]: thisdict = {
"brand": "Ford",
"model": "Mustang",
"year": 1964
}
if "model" in thisdict:
print("Yes, 'model' is one of the keys in the thisdict dictionary")

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