Essentially, dictionaries work a lot like lists. This means you can store lots of data in a single place for easy retrieval. We’ve previously discussed how to use lists in Python here: How to ...

Working with files in Python is pretty easy. But there’s a common mistake that can sneak into your code. Not closing the file ...

The traditional ways to do this in Python aren’t elegant. One is to write an if/elif/else chain of expressions. The other is to store values to match as keys in a dictionary, then use the values ...

For some time now, Python developers have been able to “annotate” names with type information. With Python 3.5, type hints officially became part of the language (see PEP 484).

How to use arrays in Python To create an array in Python, we can use a type of variable called a “dictionary.” This is an associative array, meaning that it is made of value/key pairs.