Chapter 7. Dictionaries

Chapter Topics

  • Introduction to Dictionaries

  • Operators

  • Built-in Functions

  • Built-in Methods

  • Dictionary Keys

In this chapter, we focus on Python's single mapping type, dictionaries. We present the various operators and built-in functions which can be used with dictionaries. We conclude this chapter by introducing some of the standard library modules which deal with dictionaries.

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