Supercharged Python: Take Your Code to the Next Level, First Edition

D. Dictionary Methods

This appendix lists the methods of the dict type. It does not cover functions that also may be used with this type, such as len. For those, see Appendix B.

In the syntax displays that head each section, square brackets are not intended literally but indicate optional items.

Table D.1. Most Commonly Used Dictionary Methods.

To Do The Following Task:	Call This Method:
Add key/value pairs from another collection	update
Clear all contents of dictionary	clear
Copy all contents of another dictionary	copy
Delete a key and associated value	pop
Get a value by key; return a default value (such as None) if the key is not found	get
Get a sequence containing all associated values	values
Get a sequence containing all ...