• A type of Collection.
• Elements stored as key-value ,pairs.

They are,

• Ordered
• Mutable
• Indexed
• Unique

When to use a dictionary?

• Storing elements as key-value pairs

  • Unlike any other type of collection in Python

• Quick access to data is required

  • Find a value instantly without the need for searching through the whole collection

  DICTIONARY	LIST
  Access using keys	Access using index
  Collection of key-value pairs	Collection of elements
  No duplicate items	Allows duplicate items

Creating an empty dictionary

my_first_dict = {}
print(my_first_dict)

prints, (an empty dict)

{}

Creating using curly to initialize dictionary

scores = {
    'Shafni' :80,
    'Ann' :94,
    'Kamal' :83
}

#prints the entire score
print(scores)

#prints Kamal's and Shafni's scores
print(scores['Kamal'])
print(scores.get('Shafni'))