Creation and use of dictionaries in Python

A Dictionary  is a way to store data just like a list, but instead of using only numbers to get the data, you can use almost anything. This lets you treat a dictionary like it’s a database for storing and organizing data any kind of data. Each key is separated from its value by a colon (:), the items are separated by commas, and the whole thing is enclosed in curly braces. An empty dictionary without any items is written with just two curly braces, like this: {}.

Example:

states = {
«Oregon»: «OR»,
«Florida»: «FL»,
«California»: «CA»,
«New York»: «NY»,
«Michigan»: «MI»
}
print («Michigan’s abbreviation is: «), print (states[«Michigan»])
print («Florida’s abbreviation is: «), print (states[«Florida»])
print («Oregon’s abbreviation is: «), print (states [«Oregon»])
print («California’s abbreviation is: «), print (states [«California»])
print («New York’s abbreviation is: «), print (states [«New York»])

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Karina-Ramirez:desktop Karina$ python3 dictionary.py

Michigan’s abbreviation is: MI

Florida’s abbreviation is: FL

Oregon’s abbreviation is: OR

California’s abbreviation is: CA

New York’s abbreviation is: NY