dictionaries

What is a dictionary? Information organized into key:value pairs.

filipa = {
    'name': ['filipa', 'da gama', 'calado'],
    'age': 35,
    'degree': 'literature',
    'jobs': ['professor', 'digital scholarship specialist', 'student']
}

How do we access items within a column? With brackets.

filipa['jobs']

['professor', 'digital scholarship specialist', 'student']

filipa['age']

35

How do we access items within a column? With list indexing.

filipa['name'][0]

'filipa'

Don’t worry if this looks wonky to you now. We will have plenty of time to practice in the next few lessons on APIs.