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Dictionaries

What is a Dictionary?
• Dictionary in Python is an unordered collection of data
values, used to store data values like a map, which unlike
other Data Types that hold only single value as an element.
• Dictionary holds a pair of values, one being the Key and the
other corresponding pair element being its key-value.
What is a Dictionary?
• Dictionary in Python is an unordered collection of
data values, used to store data values like a map,
which unlike other Data Types that hold only
single value as an element.
• A dictionary is a collection which is unordered,
changeable and indexed
• Values in a dictionary can be of any data type and
can be duplicated, whereas keys can’t be
repeated and must be immutable.
• Key value is provided in the dictionary to make it
more optimized.
Creating a Dictionary

• n Python, a Dictionary can be created by


placing sequence of elements within curly
“{ }” braces, separated by ‘comma’.
• Dictionary keys are case sensitive, same name
but different cases of Key will be treated
distinctly.
Creating empty dictionary
Creating dictionary using dict() function
• We can create dictionaries by using a builtin
function called dict().
Adding and replacing values to a dictionary

• To add new items in to a dictionary , we can


use the subscript [] operator.
• Syntax: Dictioanry_name [key] = value
Adding and replacing values to a dictionary
Replacing value of dictionary
Formatting dictionaries

• The % operator is used to substitute values from a


dictionary , in to a string by using key.
Deleting items from dictionary
• We can delete any entry from dictionary.
• The “del” operator is used to remove key and
its associated value.
• If key is found in the dictionary then it is
removed otherwise python raises an error.
• Syntax: del dictioanry_name[key]
Deleting items from dictionary
Comparing two dictionaries
• The “==” operator is used to test if two
dictionaries contains the same items.
• It returns true two dictionaries contains same
items.
• Similarly the “!=” operator is used to test if
two dictionaries doesn’t contain same items.
• It returns true two dictionaries contains
different items.
Comparing two dictionaries
The methods of dictionary class
• keys() – return a sequence of keys from dictionary
The methods of dictionary class
• values() – return a sequence of vales from a
dictionary
The methods of dictionary class
• items() – Return a sequence of tuples
The methods of dictionary class
• get(key) – return the value for key.
The methods of dictionary class
• clear() – Delete all entries of a dictionary
Traversing dictionaries
• The for loop is used to traverse all keys and
values of a dictionary.
• The variable of the for loop is bound to each
key in an unspecified order.
• It means it retrieve the keys and values in any
order.
Traversing dictionaries using for loop
Nested dictionaries
• A dictionary with in a dictionary is called nested dictionary.
Traversing Nested dictionaries
Polynomials as dictionaries
• Dictionaries can change their content so they are
mutable in nature.
• The keys in a dictionary is not restricted to be strings.
• Any immutable object can be used as key.
• A common type of key used in dictionaries is integers.
• We can use dictionaries while calculating polynomial
equation.
• A dictionary is used to map a power to a coefficient.
let the equation be -2 + y^4 + 3y^6
The dictionary for the above equation is
{0:-2, 4:1, 6:3}
Write a python program to calculate the polynomial
equation -2 + y^4 + 3y^6

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