News How To Use Dictionaries in Python

[Admin]

Learn how to create and use dictionaries in Python by creating a real world project which has them at its heart.

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[BillyBuerger]

Funny that this article showed up today as I just had to lookup python dictionaries this morning. Only because I only use python sparingly and I always forget little details of how it does some of its things compared to C#.

 

[bit_user]

I'm sure this is useful for some, but I hope every budding Python programmer has seen & knows how to find the Tutorial and Library Reference:

• https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html#dictionaries
• https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#mapping-types-dict

What would've made it useful for me is to know a bit about how Dictionaries are implemented and their performance-scaling characteristics. I assume they use some form of hash table, although I wouldn't mind knowing more specifics. Anyway, the article is long enough as is, but you might consider doing a "Python Code Optimization" tutorial, at some point.

Another thought I just had is that you could point out interesting places & ways that Dictionaries play into the language, itself.