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Chapter 10: Dictionaries

An image of a dictionary.
Figure 10.1 credit: modification of work "Dictionary", by Caleb Roenigk/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

A Python dictionary is a data type for storing the data in a key-value pair format. In this chapter, the dictionary data type is introduced. This chapter also introduces ways to use dictionaries, including looping over dictionary items and performing conditional statements on a dictionary.

Adapted from Introduction to Python Programming by OpenStax (openstax.org), licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Changes were made. License: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0.

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