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]

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

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

How do I append this to 'groups'?

groups['ITALIAN'] = 'orange'

as described at

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

-tkc

 

[Sybren Stuvel]

Harlin Seritt enlightened us with:

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'?

groups['ITALIAN'] = 'orange'

Sybren

 

[Ben Finney]

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

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

How do I append this to 'groups'?

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.

>>> groups = {'IRISH': 'green', 'AMERICAN': 'blue'}
>>> groups['ITALIAN'] = 'orange'
>>> print groups

{'IRISH': 'green', 'AMERICAN': 'blue', 'ITALIAN': 'orange'}


Please enjoy your trip through the Python tutorial, working through
the examples and understanding each one.

<URL:http://docs.python.org/tut/>