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Dictionary Notes

A dictionary is a mutable, unordered collection of key-value pairs where keys must be unique and immutable, created using curly brackets. You can add, update, access, and remove items using various methods such as square brackets, update(), pop(), and del. Additionally, dictionary methods like keys(), values(), and items() allow for retrieving keys, values, and key-value pairs respectively.

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Dictionary Notes

A dictionary is a mutable, unordered collection of key-value pairs where keys must be unique and immutable, created using curly brackets. You can add, update, access, and remove items using various methods such as square brackets, update(), pop(), and del. Additionally, dictionary methods like keys(), values(), and items() allow for retrieving keys, values, and key-value pairs respectively.

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Dictionary:

 It is a collection key and value pairs.


 It is mutable data type.
 It is unordered or non-sequential data type.
 Key must be unique and immutable.
 It is created using {} curly brackets.
 Keys and values are separated by colon. i.e. key : value
 Each key value pair is separated by comma. i.e. { key1: value1 , key2 : value2 }

Creating a dictionary :
Example: Create a student dictionary with name s and keys name, class and marks.
s={
'name' : 'Sachin',
'class': 12,
'marks': 75
}

Print a dictionary:
To print a dictionary use following syntax:
print(dictionary_name)

Dictionary Length :
To determine how many items a
dictionary has, use the len() function.

Syntax: len(dictionary_name)
Looping through a dictionary: you can use for loop for this

1. To get values of a dictionary one by one, 2. To get keys of a dictionary one by one,
You can use either of the two ways given You can use either of the two ways given below.
below.

Accessing value of a key:

a.)Using square brackets


Adding or Updating an item in a dictionary:
Adding and updating is done in a same way. If a key already exists then its value will be updated.
If a key doesn’t exist already ,then a new key:value pair is added to the dictionary.
There are two ways for doing so.

a.)Using square brackets b.)Using update() method

Updating a dictionary using update():


Updating a dictionary using square brackets :
In this case key already exists, so just its value is
In this case key already exists, so just its value is updated with the new one.
updated with the new one.
Example : you want to change the name to Ramesh
Example : you want to change the name to Ram
and marks to 89
and marks to 90
Removing Items
These two methods are used to remove items from a dictionary:

a.)Using pop() b.)Using popitem()

Dictionary methods:
1. keys() : It returns a list of all the keys in a dictionary.

syntax
dictionary_name.keys()
2. values() : It returns a list of all the values in a dictionary.

3. items() : It returns a list of all the items (key:value pairs) in a dictionary.

4. clear()
It deletes all the data from the dictionary.
5. fromkeys() : It creates and returns a new dictionary with the given keys.
All the keys will have same value if provided. If no value is provided, None is used as default.

del keyword:

del keyword is used to delete a complete dictionary, list or tuple.


When used with keyname, it can also delete the key:value pair from dictionary.

Deleting a dictionary: In the given example, when we try to print dictionary s1 , it gives error. Because del
keyword has already deleted s1. So it doesn’t exist anymore. Similarly it can be used with any list or tuple.
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