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.htm...00000000000000

-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
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[Ben Finney]

"Harlin Seritt" <ha**********@yahoo.com> writes:

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/>

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