Overview
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Learn how to use dictionaries to store and retrieve unordered data in Python.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Python dictionaries and why you should use them
- What you should know
- What is a dictionary in Python?
- Creating a dictionary
- Iterating through a dictionary
- Challenge
- Solution
- Basic Python dictionary operations and comparators
- Python dictionary methods
- Using Python lists within a dictionary
- Challenge
- Solution
- Dictionary vs. lists
- Dictionary vs. sets and tuples
- Implementation of dictionaries as hash tables in Python
- Quiz introduction
- Understanding comprehension
- Understanding dictionary comprehension with an example
- Challenge
- Solution
- Next steps for Python dictionaries
