Tutorial Python 2.1: Dictionaries

[Covid-19]

Dictionaries:
           So, now let’s talk about a new concept , similar to lists but a slight difference i.e dictionaries. Dictionaries are data structures like lists. Elements in list have index but in dictionaries elements are accessed by its key not by index. For revise let’s code a list

numbers = [12,4,2,31,4,6,7]

Now let’s see how can we make a dictionary in python

Code:

d = {'name' : 'Covid', 'age' : 13, 'location' : 'china'}
print(d)

The key is on the left side of the colon and value is on the right side. Only immutable objects (Which can’t be changed) can be used as keys i.e integer, boolean, float and strings. Mutable objects can not be used as keys i.e lists. For Example, Look at the below code it will generate an error.

Code:

d = {['name'] : 'Covid', 'age' : 3, 'location' : 'china'}
print(d)

Now let’s see how can we add more element to our dictionary, Let’s code it

Code:

d = { 'name' : 'Covid','age' : 13, 'location' : 'china'}
print(d)

d['Course'] = 'Python'
print(d)

Changing the value of element in this code we will change name from Covid to Kurd

Code:

d = { 'name' : 'Covid','age' : 13, 'location' : 'china'}
print(d)

d['Course'] = 'Python'
print(d)
d['name'] = 'Kurd'
print(d)

So till now we have covered the syntax of the dictionary adding elements and more we covered changing values of the dictionary.

As in our previous threads we covered some built-in functions for strings and lists. Now we will add some built-in functions for dictionaries.
First method is ‘len()’ . Similar to a list it returns the size of the dictionary.
get() method Returns the value of the specified key.
values() This method return the all values present in a dictionary but not keys
popitem() removes the last pair of dictionary

Check out the link below for more method on Python


Now let’s write a code a apply all those method mentioned above in this code

Code:

# Code to demonstrate dictionaries methods

d = { 'name' : 'Covid','age' : 13, 'location' : 'china'}
print(d)
print(len(d))
print(d.get('age'))
print(d.values())
d.popitem()
print(d)

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[Mr.Kurd]

Amazing thread, Working with dicts are all fun especially with dynamic languages like Javascript.

[Covid-19]

Amazing thread, Working with dicts are all fun especially with dynamic languages like Javascript.

Thanks Kurd