LEARNING OUTCOMES
LEARNING OUTCOMES
After studying this lesson, students
will be able to:
Understand the need of dictionaries;
Solve problems by using dictionaries;
Get clear idea about dictionaries functions;
and
Understand the difference between list and
dictionary.
WHAT IS DICTIONARY?
DICTIONARIES
A dictionary is an unordered collection of key
value pairs.
A dictionary has a length, specifically the
number of key-value pairs.
A dictionary provides fast look up by key.
The keys must be immutable object types.
WHAT IS DICTIONARY?
• It is just like English Dictionary where meaning is
associated with a word (Key).
• Dictionaries are containers that associate keys to
values.
• With list, tuples and strings we need to know the
index of individual element to access but with
Dictionaries user need to search value based on
key.
DICTIONARIES
Curly braces mark the beginning and end of
the dictionary
Each entry (key:value) consists of a pair
separated by a colon. The key and corresponding
value is given by writing colon(:) between them.
The key:value pairs are separated by comma.
Internally dictionaries are indexed (i.e.) arranged
on the basis of keys.
CREATING AND
ACCESSING LISTS
>>>Month={“January":31,"February":28,"M
arch":31,"April":30,"May
":31,"June":30,"July":31,"August":31,"Sept
ember":30,"October":31," November":30,
"December":31}
>>>teacher={'Bimlendu':'9470010804','Prak
ash':'8604774180’}
DICTIONARIES
Dictionaries are also called Associative Arrays
or mappings or hashes.
Keys of a dictionaries must be of immutable
type such as Python string, Number, a tuple
(containing only immutable entry) but list which
is mutable can not be used as keys of a
dictionary.
>>>dict2={[2,3]:”abc”} #TypeError:
Un-sharable Type ‘list’
STATE DIAGRAM
>>> A={1:"one",2:"two",3:"three"}
1 one
A= 2 two
3 three
KEYS VALUES
CREATING A DICTIONARY – dict()
CREATING DICTIONARAY – dict()
The function dict ( ) is used to create a
new dictionary with no items. This function is
called built-in function. We can also create
dictionary using {}.
CREATING DICTIONARAY – Example
CREATING AND TRAVERSING DICTIONARAY
CREATING AND TRAVERSING DICTIONARAY
OUT PUT
CREATING AND TRAVERSING DICTIONARAY
OUT PUT
DICTIONARAY – BUILT IN METHODS
DICTIONARAY – BUILT IN METHODS
Dictionary Method Meaning
dict.clear() Removes all the elements of the
dictionary
dict.copy() Returns (shallow)copy of
dictionary.
dict.get(key, for key key, returns value or
default=None) default if key not in dictionary
(note that default's default is
None)
dict.items() returns a list of dict's (key, value)
tuple pairs
DICTIONARAY – BUILT IN METHODS
Dictionary Method Meaning
dict.keys() returns list of dictionary dict's
keys
dict.setdefault key, similar to get(), but will set
default=None dict[key]=default if key is not
already in dict
dict.update(dict2) adds dictionary dict2's key-values
pairs to dict
dict.values() returns list of dictionary dict's
values
DICTIONARAY – BUILT IN METHODS
Dictionary Method Meaning
dict.pop() returns list of dictionary dict's
keys
dict.popitem() similar to get(), but will set
dict[key]=default if key is not
already in dict
dict.clear() METHOD
clear method
OUTPUT is in next slide!
dict.clear() METHOD - OUTPUT
Birthday dictionary cleared
dict.copy() METHOD
copy method
OUTPUT is in next slide!
dict.copy() METHOD - OUTPUT
copy method creates b2 dictionary
dict.get() METHOD
get method
OUTPUT is in next slide!
dict.get() METHOD - OUTPUT
Creating a b2 dictionary using get method
dict.items() METHOD
items method
OUTPUT is in next slide!
dict.items() METHOD - OUTPUT
items method returns dictionary content
dict.keys() METHOD
keys method
OUTPUT is in next slide!
dict.keys() METHOD - OUTPUT
keys method returns dictionary keys
dict.update() METHOD
update method
dict.values() METHOD
values method returns dictionary values
dict.pop() METHOD
pop method removes specified key
values from the dictionary
dict.popitem() METHOD
popitem method removes values/items
from the dictionary
CLASS WORK/HOME WORK
CLASS WORK/HOME WORK
1. Write a Python script to sort (ascending and
descending) a dictionary by value.
2. Write a Python script to add a key to a dictionary.
Sample Dictionary : {0: 10, 1: 20}
Expected Result : {0: 10, 1: 20, 2: 30}
3. Write a Python script to concatenate following
dictionaries to create a new one.
Sample Dictionary :
dic1={1:10, 2:20}
dic2={3:30, 4:40}
dic3={5:50,6:60}
Expected Result : {1: 10, 2: 20, 3: 30, 4: 40, 5: 50, 6:
60}
CLASS WORK/HOME WORK
4. Write a Python script to check if a given key
already exists in a dictionary.
5. Write a Python program to iterate over
dictionaries using for loops.
6. Write a Python script to generate and print a
dictionary that contains a number (between 1 and
n) in the form (x, x*x).
Sample Dictionary ( n = 5) :
Expected Output : {1: 1, 2: 4, 3: 9, 4: 16, 5: 25}
CLASS WORK/HOME WORK
7. Write a Python script to print a dictionary where
the keys are numbers between 1 and 15 (both
included) and the values are square of keys.
Sample Dictionary
{1: 1, 2: 4, 3: 9, 4: 16, 5: 25, 6: 36, 7: 49, 8: 64, 9: 81,
10: 100, 11: 121, 12: 144, 13: 169, 14: 196, 15: 225}
8. Write a Python script to merge two Python
dictionaries.
CLASS WORK/HOME WORK
9. Write a Python program to iterate over
dictionaries using for loops.
10. Write a Python program to sum all the items in
a dictionary.
Class Test
Class Test
Time: 40 Min Max Marks: 20
1. What is dictionary? give example 02
2. Write a python script to traverse a
dictionary 05
3. Explain 5 list built in methods of
dictionary 10
4. What is key value pair? Explain 05
THANK YOU
