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Understanding Python Dictionaries

A dictionary is an unordered, mutable collection of unique and immutable key-value pairs, where values can be of any data type. It provides various methods for creating, accessing, modifying, and looping through the data, making it useful for fast lookups and organizing structured information. Examples include creating dictionaries with curly braces or the dict() constructor, and using methods like keys(), values(), and items() for data manipulation.

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Understanding Python Dictionaries

A dictionary is an unordered, mutable collection of unique and immutable key-value pairs, where values can be of any data type. It provides various methods for creating, accessing, modifying, and looping through the data, making it useful for fast lookups and organizing structured information. Examples include creating dictionaries with curly braces or the dict() constructor, and using methods like keys(), values(), and items() for data manipulation.

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Dictionary

What is a Dictionary?
- A dictionary is an unordered, mutable collection of key-
value pairs.
- Keys must be unique and immutable.
- Values can be of any data type.
Example:
d = {"name": "Alice", "age": 25, "city": "Chennai"}
Creating Dictionaries
# Using curly braces
d = {"fruit": "apple", "count": 5}
# Using dict() constructor
d2 = dict(name="Bob", age=30) //No quotes for string key
#Using key as index
squares={}
squares[‘one’]=1
squares[‘two’]=4
Accessing Values
print(d["fruit"]) # Output: apple
print([Link]("count")) # Output: 5
- get() returns None if the key doesn't exist
Modifying Dictionaries
d["count"] = 10 # Update value
d["color"] = "red" # Add new key-value pair
[Link]("fruit") # Remove key-value pair
Dictionary Methods
keys() - Returns all keys
values() - Returns all values
items() - Returns all key-value pairs
get(key) - Returns value or None
pop(key) - Removes and returns value by key
update(dict) - Adds/updates another dictionary
Looping through Dictionary
for key in d:
print(key, d[key])

for key, value in [Link]():


print(key, value)
Dictionary Comprehension
squares = {x: x*x for x in range(5)}
print(squares) # {0: 0, 1: 1, 2: 4, 3: 9, 4: 16}
items()
student = {
"name": "Alice",
"age": 21,
"major": "Computer Science"
}
# Using items() to loop through key-value pairs
for key, value in [Link]():
print(key, ":", value)
fromkeys()
The fromkeys() method is used to create a new dictionary with the specified keys and a common
default value.
◦keys = ["name", "age", "gender"]
◦d = [Link](keys,0)
◦print(d)
Example
employees = {
"Alice": 50000,
"Bob": 60000,
}
salaries = [Link]()
if salaries:
average = sum(salaries) / len(salaries)
print("Average Salary:", average)
else:
print("No salaries to compute.")
Example
shopping_cart = {
"T-shirt": 499,
"Jeans": 1299,
}
total = 0
print("Shopping Cart:")
for item, price in shopping_cart.items():
print(f"{item} - ₹{price}")
total += price
print("\nTotal Bill Amount: ₹", total)
Practice Questions
1. Create a dictionary to store and display employee details.
name,empid and dept
2. Write a program to count word frequency in a sentence.
sent=input()
x=[Link]()
d={}
for y in x:
d[y]=[Link](y,0)+1 //get the value of key y [0 by default]

print(d)
d[y]=[Link](y,0)+1
#get the value of key y [0 by
default]
Summary
- Dictionaries store data in key-value pairs.
- Keys must be unique and immutable.
- Powerful for fast lookups and organizing structured data.

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