access value in dictionary python code example

Example 1: how to create dictionary in python

d = {'key': 'value'}
print(d)
# {'key': 'value'}
d['mynewkey'] = 'mynewvalue'
print(d)
# {'key': 'value', 'mynewkey': 'mynewvalue'}

Example 2: how to create a dictionary in python

thisdict = {
  "key1" : "value1"
  "key2" : "value2"
  "key3" : "value3"
  "key4" : "value4"
}

Example 3: python dictionary access value by key

# Create a list of dictionary
datadict = [{'Name': 'John', 'Age': 38, 'City': 'Boston'},
 {'Name': 'Sara', 'Age': 47, 'City': 'Charlotte'},
 {'Name': 'Peter', 'Age': 63, 'City': 'London'},
 {'Name': 'Cecilia', 'Age': 28, 'City': 'Memphis'}]

# Build a function to access to list of dictionary
def getDictVal(listofdic, name, retrieve):
    for item in listofdic:
        if item.get('Name')==name:
            return item.get(retrieve)
          
 # Use the 'getDictVal' to read the data item
getDictVal(datadict, 'Sara', 'City') # Return 'Charlotte'

# -------------------
# to convert a dataframe to data dictionary
df = pd.DataFrame({'Name': ['John', 'Sara','Peter','Cecilia'],
                   'Age': [38, 47,63,28],
                  'City':['Boston', 'Charlotte','London','Memphis']})

datadict = df.to_dict('records')

Example 4: python dict access

my_dict = {'name':'Jack', 'age': 26}
my_dict['name']

Example 5: accessing values in dictionary python

dict = {'Name': 'Zara', 'Age': 7, 'Class': 'First'}
print(dict['Name']) # Zara
print(dict['Age']) # 7