Intro to Python for Computer Science and Data Science: Learning to Program with AI, Big Data and The Cloud
by Paul J. Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel
6.5 Wrap-Up
In this chapter, we discussed Python’s dictionary and set collections. We said what a dictionary is and presented several examples. We showed the syntax of key–value pairs and showed how to use them to create dictionaries with comma-separated lists of key–value pairs in curly braces, {}. You also created dictionaries with dictionary comprehensions.
You used square brackets, [], to retrieve the value corresponding to a key, and to insert and update key–value pairs. You also used the dictionary method update to change a key’s associated value. You iterated through a dictionary’s keys, values and items.
You created sets of unique immutable values. You compared sets with the comparison operators, combined sets with set operators and ...
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