How to append to a dictionary

[Harlin Seritt]

I have some code here:

groups = {'IRISH' : 'green', 'AMERICAN' : 'blue'}

I want to add another key: 'ITALIAN' : 'orange'

How do I append this to 'groups'?

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

[Tim Chase]

Re: How to append to a dictionary

> groups = {'IRISH' : 'green', 'AMERICAN' : 'blue'}[color=blue]
>
> I want to add another key: 'ITALIAN' : 'orange'
>
> How do I append this to 'groups'?[/color]

groups['ITALIAN'] = 'orange'

as described at

http://docs.python.org/tut/node7.html#SECTION007500000000000000000

-tkc

[Sybren Stuvel]

Re: How to append to a dictionary

Harlin Seritt enlightened us with:[color=blue]
> I have some code here:
>
> groups = {'IRISH' : 'green', 'AMERICAN' : 'blue'}
>
> I want to add another key: 'ITALIAN' : 'orange'
>
> How do I append this to 'groups'?[/color]

groups['ITALIAN'] = 'orange'

Sybren
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[Ben Finney]

Re: How to append to a dictionary

"Harlin Seritt" <harlinseritt@y ahoo.com> writes:
[color=blue]
> groups = {'IRISH' : 'green', 'AMERICAN' : 'blue'}
>
> I want to add another key: 'ITALIAN' : 'orange'
>
> How do I append this to 'groups'?[/color]

Dictionary items have no implicit sequence, so you don't "append" to
one.

Assigning any value to a key in the dictionary will create that key if
it doesn't exist.
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> groups = {'IRISH': 'green', 'AMERICAN': 'blue'}
>>> groups['ITALIAN'] = 'orange'
>>> print groups[/color][/color][/color]
{'IRISH': 'green', 'AMERICAN': 'blue', 'ITALIAN': 'orange'}


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