Home, a long week, a short post. I have things to write ... ranging from Python to Pyramid organisations (wait - that's not much of a range - they're close in the dictionary ;-) - but that will have to wait until tomorrow.

But that does remind me that "Python Dictionaries" are currently the top find on our site through search engines at the moment = perhaps pointing the visitor to our training module on the subject.

Really - a Python dictionary isn't "hard" - it's like a list, except the elements are named and not numbered, so they're unordered rather than ordered. These little changes lead to a slightly different syntax and different methods - but really they're fabulous. I must follow up further on this when I am supposed to be writing long ....
(written 2004-10-29, updated 2008-05-11)

 Y107 - Python - Dictionaries
  [955] Python collections - mutable and imutable - (2006-11-29)
  [1144] Python dictionary for quick look ups - (2007-04-12)
  [1145] Using a list of keys and a list of values to make a dictionary in Python - zip - (2007-04-13)
  [2368] Python - fresh examples of all the fundamentals - (2009-08-20)
  [2915] Looking up a value by key - associative arrays / Hashes / Dictionaries - (2010-08-11)
  [2986] Python dictionaries - reaching to new uses - (2010-10-05)
  [2994] Python - some common questions answered in code examples - (2010-10-10)
  [3464] Passing optional and named parameters to python methods - (2011-10-04)
  [3488] Python sets and frozensets - what are they? - (2011-10-20)
  [3554] Learning more about our web site - and learning how to learn about yours - (2011-12-17)
  [3555] Football league tables - under old and new point system. Python program. - (2011-12-18)
  [3662] Finding all the unique lines in a file, using Python or Perl - (2012-03-20)
  [3934] Multiple identical keys in a Python dict - yes, you can! - (2012-11-24)
  [4027] Collections in Python - list tuple dict and string. - (2013-03-04)
  [4029] Exception, Lambda, Generator, Slice, Dict - examples in one Python program - (2013-03-04)
  [4409] Setting up and using a dict in Python - simple first example - (2015-01-30)
  [4469] Sorting in Python 3 - and how it differs from Python 2 sorting - (2015-04-20)
  [4661] Unique word locator - Python dict example - (2016-03-06)
  [4668] Sorting a dict in Python - (2016-04-01)

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