Python/C3/Dictionaries/English
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Containing title, name of the production team along with the logo of MHRD |
Hello friends and Welcome to the spoken tutorial on 'dictionaries'. |
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Learning objectives |
At the end of this tutorial, you will be able to,
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Pre-requisite slide |
Before beginning this tutorial,we would suggest you to complete the tutorial on "Basic datatypes and operators". |
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Overview of dictionaries |
A dictionary in general, is designed to look up for meanings of words. Similarly, Python dictionary is also designed to look up for a specific key and retrieve the corresponding value. Dictionaries are data structures that provide key-value mappings. Dictionaries are similar to lists except that instead of the values having integer indexes, dictionaries have keys or strings as indexes. |
Open the terminal
ipython |
We start our ipython interpreter as, |
mt_dict = {} | Let us start by creating an empty dictionary. Type the following in your IPython interpreter. |
move the mouse over curly braces | Notice that unlike lists, curly braces are used to define a dictionary. |
extensions = {'jpg' : 'JPEG Image', 'py' : 'Python script',
'html' : 'Html document', 'pdf' : 'Portable Document Format'} |
Now let us see how to create a non-empty dictionary, |
Move the mouse over the commas | Notice that each key-value pair is separated by a comma. |
Move the mouse over the colon one by one | and each key and value are separated using a colon. |
extensions | Here, we have defined four entries in the dictionary extensions. The keys are
jpg, py, html, and pdf. Simply type,extensions in the interpreter to see the content of the dictionary. |
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Accessing elements |
Notice that, in dictionaries, the order cannot be predicted and you can see that the values are not in the order that we entered in. |
Switch to terminal
print extensions['jpg'] |
Like in lists, the elements in a dictionary can be accessed using the index, here the index is the key. We type, |
print extensions['zip'] | It printed JPEG Image. And now try, |
extensions['cpp'] = 'C++ code' | Well it gave us an error, saying that the key 'zip' is not in the dictionary.
Pause here for some time and try few more keys. Also try jpg in capital letters. <continue from paused state> Well that was about creating dictionaries, now how do we add or delete items. We can add new items into dictionaries as, |
del extensions['pdf'] | and delete items using the del keyword as, |
extensions | Let us check the content of the dictionary now, |
extensions['cpp'] = 'C++ source code'
extensions |
So the changes have been made. Now let us try one more thing, |
'py' in extensions
'odt' in extensions |
As you can see, it neither added a new thing nor gave an error, but it simply replaced the existing value with the new one.
Now let us learn how to check if a particular key is present in the dictionary. For that we can use the method in, |
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Retrieve keys and values |
It will return True if the key is found in the dictionary, and will return False if key is not present. Note that we can check only for container-ship of keys in dictionaries and not values. |
Now let us see how to retrieve the keys and values. We can use the method keys() for getting a list of the keys in a particular dictionary and the method values() for getting a list of values. | |
Switch to terminal
extensions.keys() |
Let us try them, |
extensions.values() | It returned the list of keys in the dictionary extensions. And now the other one, |
It returned the list of values in the dictionary.
Pause the video here, try out the following exercise and resume the video. | |
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Assignment 1 |
Print the keys and values in the dictionary one by one. |
Continue from paused state Switch to the terminal
for each in extensions.keys(): print each, "-->", extensions[each] |
Switch to terminal for solution. |
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Summary slide |
This brings us to the end of this tutorial. In this tutorial, we have learnt to,
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Self assessment questions slide |
Here are some self assessment questions for you to solve
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Solution of self assessment questions on slide |
And the answers,
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Acknowledgment slide |
Hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and found it useful. Thank you! |