Let us declare three dictionary objects as below −
>>> d1={"name":"Ravi","age":25, "marks":60} >>> d2={"name":"Anil","age":23, "marks":75} >>> d3={"name":"Asha", "age":20, "marks":70}
Now we shall use them as values in a parent dictionary
>>>twodimdict={1:d1,2:d2,3:d3} >>>twodimdict {1: {'name': 'Ravi', 'age': 25, 'marks': 60}, 2: {'name': 'Anil', 'age': 23, 'marks': 75}, 3: {'name': 'Asha', 'age': 20, 'marks': 70}}
Here d1, d2 and d3 are assigned as value to keys 1,2,3
twodimdict [1] returns d1. Value of a key inside d1 can be obtained as below −
>>>twodimdict[1] {'name': 'Ravi', 'age': 25, 'marks': 60} >>>twodimdict[1]["age"] 25
Note that the dictionary items are not indexed.