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Understanding Python Dictionaries Basics

Dictionaries are collections of key-value pairs enclosed in braces, where keys are unique and values can be mutable or immutable. They can be created empty or with initial values, and items can be accessed, added, modified, or deleted using keys. Dictionaries are unordered, mutable, and support aliasing, meaning changes to one reference affect all references to the same dictionary.

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Understanding Python Dictionaries Basics

Dictionaries are collections of key-value pairs enclosed in braces, where keys are unique and values can be mutable or immutable. They can be created empty or with initial values, and items can be accessed, added, modified, or deleted using keys. Dictionaries are unordered, mutable, and support aliasing, meaning changes to one reference affect all references to the same dictionary.

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Introductions to Dictionaries

● A collection of items where each item is represented by a key-value pair


● Key and values are separated by :
● The elements are enclosed in { }
● d={key1:val1,key2:val2, key3:value3}
Example: d1={1:’A’, 2:’B’, 3:’C’}
● d2={‘name’:’ram’, ‘Rno’:72, ‘percentage’:72.5,’passed’:True}
How to create an empty dictionary
● Example:
d={ }
● Type(d): <class 'dict'>
Access the content of the dictionary
To access the elements of the dictionary, we should use a
key, not an index value.
Example:
d1={1:’A’, 2:’B’, 3:’C’}
d2={‘name’:’ram’,‘Rno’:72,‘percentage’:72.5,’passed’:Tr
ue}
d1[1]=‘A’
d1[2]=‘B’
d2[‘Rno’]=72
d2[‘passed’]=True
How to Add items to the dictionary
d1={1:’A’, 2:’B’, 3:’C’}
d1[4]=‘D’ #OUTPUT {1:’A’, 2:’B’, 3:’C’,4:’D’}
How to modify items of the dictionary
d1[1]=‘E’ # d1={1:’E’, 2:’B’ , 3:’C’}
How to delete items from the dictionary
del d1[1]
print[(d1)
Output: d1={ , 2:’B’, 3: ‘C’} # full dictionary delete del d1

Whether the dictionary is:


[Link] or ordered: The dictionary is an
unordered collection of items.
d1={1:’A’, 2:’B’, 3:’C’}
Print(d1) # any order you may get output
2. Mutable or immutable: Dictionary is mutable; we
can add new items in to the dictionary (keys-
>immutable, values-> mutable)
d1={1:’A’, 2:’B’, 3:’C’}
3. Unique or duplicate: keys are unique, values are
either unique or duplicates.
d1={1:’A’, 2:’B’, 3:’C’, 4:’A’}
●
● Aliasing and copying
● Dictionaries, like lists, are mutable objects.
● Aliasing happens when two variables point to the same dictionary in memory.
● Any modification made through one variable automatically affects the dictionary accessed through
the other variable.

● alias and opposites refer to the same object; copy refers to a fresh copy of the same dictionary. If
we modify alias, opposites is also changed:

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