access element from python dictionary code example

Example 1: Python New Disctionary

new_dict = dict()

#OR

new_dict = {}

Example 2: 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 3: python dict access

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

Example 4: dictionary in python

#A dictionary has key-value pairs. Here 1,2,3 are the keys and Item1,Item2,Item3 
#are their values respectively. 
dictionaryName = { 1: "Item1", 2: "Item2", 3: "Item3"}

#retrieving value of a particular key
dictionaryName[1]

#retrieving all the keys in a dictionary
dictionaryName.keys()

#retrieving all the values in a dictionary
dictionaryName.values()