labs/Module-2/1.Basic/05-Dictionaries.ipynb

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    "# Dictionaries\n",
    "\n",
    "    1.) Constructing a Dictionary\n",
    "    2.) Accessing objects from a dictionary\n",
    "    3.) Nesting Dictionaries\n",
    "    4.) Basic Dictionary Methods"
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   "source": [
    "# Make a dictionary with {} and : to signify a key and a value\n",
    "my_dict = {'key1':'value1','key2':'value2'}"
   ]
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    "# Call values by their key\n",
    "my_dict['key2']"
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    "Its important to note that dictionaries are very flexible in the data types they can hold. For example:"
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   "source": [
    "my_dict = {'key1':123,'key2':[12,23,33],'key3':['item0','item1','item2']}"
   ]
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   "source": [
    "# Let's call items from the dictionary\n",
    "my_dict['key3']"
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    "# Can call an index on that value\n",
    "my_dict['key3'][0]"
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    "# Can then even call methods on that value\n",
    "my_dict['key3'][0].upper()"
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    "We can affect the values of a key as well. For instance:"
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    "my_dict['key1']"
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    "# Subtract 123 from the value\n",
    "my_dict['key1'] = my_dict['key1'] - 123"
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   "source": [
    "#Check\n",
    "my_dict['key1']"
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    "A quick note, Python has a built-in method of doing a self subtraction or addition (or multiplication or division). We could have also used += or -= for the above statement. For example:"
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    "# Set the object equal to itself minus 123 \n",
    "my_dict['key1'] -= 123\n",
    "my_dict['key1']"
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   "source": [
    "We can also create keys by assignment. For instance if we started off with an empty dictionary, we could continually add to it:"
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   "source": [
    "# Create a new dictionary\n",
    "d = {}"
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    "# Create a new key through assignment\n",
    "d['animal'] = 'Dog'"
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    "# Can do this with any object\n",
    "d['answer'] = 42"
   ]
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   "source": [
    "#Show\n",
    "d"
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    "## Nesting with Dictionaries\n",
    "\n",
    "Hopefully you're starting to see how powerful Python is with its flexibility of nesting objects and calling methods on them. Let's see a dictionary nested inside a dictionary:"
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    "# Dictionary nested inside a dictionary nested inside a dictionary\n",
    "d = {'key1':{'nestkey':{'subnestkey':'value'}}}"
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    "Wow! That's a quite the inception of dictionaries! Let's see how we can grab that value:"
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    "# Keep calling the keys\n",
    "d['key1']['nestkey']['subnestkey']"
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    "## A few Dictionary Methods\n",
    "\n",
    "There are a few methods we can call on a dictionary. Let's get a quick introduction to a few of them:"
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   "source": [
    "# Create a typical dictionary\n",
    "d = {'key1':1,'key2':2,'key3':3}"
   ]
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    "# Method to return a list of all keys \n",
    "d.keys()"
   ]
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    "# Method to grab all values\n",
    "d.values()"
   ]
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   "source": [
    "# Method to return tuples of all items  (we'll learn about tuples soon)\n",
    "d.items()"
   ]
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   "source": [
    "Hopefully you now have a good basic understanding how to construct dictionaries. There's a lot more to go into here, but we will revisit dictionaries at later time. After this section all you need to know is how to create a dictionary and how to retrieve values from it."
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