• Dictionary is an unordered collection of key-value pairs.

• Real word dictionaries are a good analogy to understand them: they contain a list of items(words), and each item has a key(the word) and a value(the word’s meaning).

• It generally is used when we have a huge amount of data.

• It is defined within braces, with each item being in the form of key: value pair. Syntax –

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  my_dict = {
  "key1":"value1",
  "key2":"value2",
  }
  

Tutorial on Dictionaries

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• The keys in a dictionary must always be unique and immutable. This is the reason dictionary keys can be String but not List.

• On the other hand, Values in a dictionary can be of any datatype and can be duplicated.

• Dictionary keys are case sensitive, same name but different cases of Key will be treated distinctly.

• Example: