How to create a Python Dictionary

Dictionaries in python are quite similar to arrays in how they look however arrays are indexed by a range of numbers i.e. 1-10, but dictionaries are indexed by their key. You can set these keys to immutable data types only. They can also be known as key pair arrays.

You will be used to seeing this to create a standard array using square brackets.

 test_array = []

If you want to create a dictionary you use curly brackets.

 test_dictionary = {}

The format of a dictionary looks like this.

{'TEST': 1}

With TEST being the key and 1 the pair.

If you want to store values in a dictionary

test_dictionary["KEY"] = "Pair"

To iterate through a dictionary:

for key, value in test_dictionary.items():
     print('{0} links to {1}'.format(key, value)