DICTIONARIES TUTORIALS FOR ADVANCED LEARNING OF YTHON PROGRAMMING

Unit 2:
Computational Thinking and Programming
XI
Computer Science (083)
Board : CBSE
Courtesy CBSE

Unit II
Computational Thinking and Programming
(60 Theory periods + 45 Practical Periods)
DCSc & Engg, PGDCA,ADCA,MCA.MSc(IT),Mtech(IT),MPhil (Comp. Sci)
Department of Computer Science, Sainik School Amaravathinagar
Cell No: 9431453730
Praveen M Jigajinni
Prepared by
Courtesy CBSE

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.
LEARNING OUTCOMES

A dictionary is like a list, but more in
general. In a list, index value is an integer, while
in a dictionary index value can be any other data
type and are called keys. The key will be used as
a string as it is easy to recall. A dictionary is an
extremely useful data storage construct for
storing and retrieving all key value pairs, where
each element is accessed (or indexed) by a
unique key. However, dictionary keys are not in
sequences and hence maintain no left-to right
order.
WHAT IS DICTIONARY?

We can refer to a dictionary as a
mapping between a set of indices (which
are called keys) and a set of values. Each
key maps a value. The association of a key
and a value is called a key-value pair.
Syntax:
my_dict = {'key1': 'value1','key2':
'value2','key3': 'value3'…'keyn': 'valuen'}
KEY VALYE PAIR

Curley brackets are used to represent a
dictionary.
Each pair in the dictionary is represented
by a key and value separated by a colon.
Multiple pairs are separated by vcomas
DICTIONARIES

A dictionary is an un
ordered collection of key
value pairs.
A dictionary has a length, specifically the numb
er of key
value pairs.
A dictionary provides fast look up by key.
The keys must be immutable object types.
DICTIONARIES

>>> A={1:"one",2:"two",3:"three"}
STATE DIAGRAM
A =
1 one
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

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,
default=None)
for key key, returns value or
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

dict.keys() returns list of dictionary dict's
keys
dict.setdefault key,
default=None
similar to get(), but will set
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

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

dict.copy() METHOD - OUTPUT
copy method creates b2 dictionary

dict.get() METHOD
get method

dict.get() METHOD - OUTPUT
Creating a b2 dictionary using get method

dict.items() METHOD
items method

dict.items() METHOD - OUTPUT
items method returns dictionary content

dict.keys() METHOD
keys method

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
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}

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}

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.

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
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

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