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The document provides an overview of dictionaries in Python, describing them as unordered collections of key-value pairs that are mutable and require unique keys. It covers how to create, access, update, and remove items from dictionaries, along with various built-in functions and methods for manipulating them. Examples are provided to illustrate the syntax and functionality of dictionaries.

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Dictionaries in Python

Introduction
 Dictionary is an unordered collection (no indexing) of items where each item consist of a
key and a value, ie.,key-value pair.
 If we want to group multiple elements under a single variable, these datatypes or
collections are used in Python.
 Each element in a dictionary can be accessed by a unique key.
 It is mutable(can modify its values), but key must be unique and immutable.

{Key:Value} Keys strings,numbers or tuples.


Values can be of any python datatypes
 Each key is separated from its value by a colon( : ),items are separated by commas, and
entire dictionary is enclosed in curly braces.
Creating a Dictionary
 Syntax:
<dictionary_name={‘key1’:’Value1’,’key2’:’value2’,………’keyn’:’valuen’}
 Example: d={} Empty dictionary
Values

dict={‘R’:’Rainy’,’S’:’Summer’,’W’:’Winter’,’A’:’Autumn’}

Keys
print(dict)
Output is {'R': 'Rainy', 'S': 'Summer', 'W': 'Winter', 'A': 'Autumn’}
dict={‘R’:’Rainy’,’S’:’Summer’,’W’:’Winter’,’A’:’Autumn’,’W’:’Winter Season’}
print(dict)
Output is {'R': 'Rainy', 'S': 'Summer', 'W': 'Winter Season', 'A': 'Autumn'}
Methods to create a Dictionary
1.To create an empty dictionary, put two curly braces:
Example: >>>d={}
>>>type(d)
<class ‘dict’>
2.Enclose key-value pair in curly braces:
Example: >>>d={‘Name’:’Amy’,’Age’:16,’Class’:11}
>>>print(d)
{‘Name’:’Amy’,’Age’:16,’Class’:12}
3.Using dict():
Add an item to a dictionary
 To add an item to a dictionary, we can use square bracket([])
for accessing and initializing dictionary values.
 Example: >>>d={}
>>>d[1]=“One”
>>>d[2]=“Two”
>>>d[3]=“Three”
>>>print(d)
{1:”One”,2:”Two”,3:”Three”}
Accessing Elements in Dictionary
 To access dictionary elements, we can use square brackets along with the key to obtain its
value.
 Example:
>>>d={‘Name’:’Riya’,’Age’:7,’Class’:’Second’}
>>>print(d[‘Name’] or print(“d[‘Name’]:“,d[‘Name’]) or print(d.get(‘Name’))
Riya
>>>print(d[‘Age’] or print(“d[‘Age’]:”,d[‘Age’]) or print(d.get(‘Age’))
7
 If we try to access element with a key which is not a part of dictionary, we get an error as
follows:
>>>d={‘Name’:’Riya’,’Age’:7,’Class’:’Second’}
>>>print(d[‘Aman’]
Traceback (most recent call last)
File”<pyshell#16>”,line 1,in <module>
print(d[‘Aman’]
Key error:’Aman’
Traversing a Dictionary
 Traversing a dictionary means accessing each element in a dictionary.
 This can be done through for loops.
 Example 1:
d={1:’One’,2:’Two’,3:’Three’} Output 1 One
for i in d: # i takes the key not values. 2 Two
print(i,d[i]) 3 Three
 Example 2:
d={1:’One’,2:’Two’,3:’Three’} Output 1:One
for i in d: # i takes the key not values. 2:Two
print(i,”:”,d[i]) 3:Three
Appending Values in a dictionary
 We can add elements to an existing dictionary.
 Example:
D={‘Sun’:’Sunday’,’Mon’:’Monday’}
D[‘Tue’]=‘Tuesday’
print(D)

Output
{‘Sun’:’Sunday’,’Mon’:’Monday’,’Tue’:’Tuesday’}
Updating Dictionary Elements
 We can modify the individual elements of a dictionary.
 Example:
d={‘Teena’:18,’Riya’:12,’Ameya’:22,’Ram’:25}
d[‘Riya’]=28
print(d) Output {‘Teena’:18,’Riya’:28,’Ameya’:22,’Ram’:25}
 Two dictionaries can be merged into one by using update() method.
 Example:
d1={1:10,2:20,3:30}
d2={4:40,5:50}
print(d1.update(d2)) Output {1:10,2:20,3:30,4:40,5:50}
 Example:
d1=={1:10,2:30,3:30,5:40,6:60}
d2={1:10,2:20,3:30}
print(d1.update(d2)) Output {1:10,2:203:30,5:40,6:60}
Removing an item from Dictionary
Using del command:
 Example:
A={‘Mon’:’Monday’,’Tue’:’Tuesday’,’Wed’:’Wednesday’,’Thur’:’Thursday’}
print(del A[‘Wed’]) Output {‘Mon’:’Monday’,’Tue’:’Tuesday’,’Thur’:’Thursday’}
print(del A[‘Fri’]) KeyError:’Fri’

Using pop() method:


 pop() method not only delete the item from the dictionary, but also return the deleted
value.
 Example:
A={‘Mon’:’Monday’,’Tue’:’Tuesday’,’Wed’:’Wednesday’,’Thur’:’Thursday’}
d=A.pop(‘Tue’)
print (d) Output Tuesday
print(A) Output {‘Mon’:’Monday’,’Wed’:’Wednesday’,’Thur’:’Thursday’}
Using popitem() method:
 Python dictionary popitem() method removes the last inserted key-
value pair from the dictionary and returns it as a tuple.
 popitem() method return keyError if dictionary is empty.
 Example:
d = {1: '001', 2: '010', 3: '011’}
print(d.popitem()) Output is (3, ’011’)
‘in’ & ‘not in’ Membership Operator
 It checks whether a particular key is present in the dictionary or not.
 It returns True if element appears in the dictionary, otherwise returns False.
 Example:
>>>d={‘mon’:’Monday’,’tue’:’tuesday’,’wed’:’Wednesday’}
>>>‘thur’ in d
False
>>>’mon’ in d
True
Dictionary Built-in Functions
len():
 It returns the number of key-value pairs in the given dictionary.
 Example:
>>>d1={1:10,2:30,3:30,5:40,6:60}
>>>len(d1)
5
clear():
 It removes all items from a particular dictionary.
 Example:
>>>d1={1:10,2:30,3:30,5:40,6:60}
>>>d1.clear()
>>>print(d1)
{}
get():
 It returns a value for the given key.
 Syntax:
dict.get(key,default=None)
key- This is the key to be searched in the dictionary.
default-This is the value to be returned if the key does not exists.
 Example:
>>>d={‘Sun’:’Sunday’,’Mon’:’Monday’,’Tue’:’Tuesday’,’Wed’:’Wednesday’}
>>>d.get(‘Tue’)
Tuesday
>>>d.get(‘Fri’)
None
 We can specify our own message for default value.
>>>d.get(‘Fri’,’Never’)
Never
items():
 It returns the content of dictionary as a list of tuples having key-value pairs.
 Example:
>>>d={‘Sun’:’Sunday’,’Mon’:’Monday’,’Tue’:’Tuesday’,’Wed’:’Wednesday’}
>>>d.items()
dict_items([(‘Sun’,’Sunday’),(‘Mon’,’Monday’),(‘Tue’,’Tuesday’),(‘Wed’,’Wednesday’)])

keys():
 It returns a list of key values in the dictionary.
 Example:
>>>d={‘Sun’:’Sunday’,’Mon’:’Monday’,’Tue’:’Tuesday’,’Wed’:’Wednesday’}
>>>d.keys()
dict_items([‘Sun’,’Mon’,’Tue’,’Wed’])
values():
 It returns a list of values from key-value pairs in a dictionary.
 Example:
>>>d={‘Sun’:’Sunday’,’Mon’:’Monday’,’Tue’:’Tuesday’,’Wed’:’Wednesday’}
>>>d.values()
dict_items([‘Sunday’,’Monday’,’Tuesday’,’Wednesday’])

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