Motivation for dictionaries

To see why dictionaries are useful, have a look at the two lists defined in the script. countries contains the names of some European countries. capitals lists the corresponding names of their capital.

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Intermediate Python

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Exercise instructions

Use the index() method on countries to find the index of 'germany'. Store this index as ind_ger.
Use ind_ger to access the capital of Germany from the capitals list. Print it out.

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Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Definition of countries and capital
countries = ['spain', 'france', 'germany', 'norway']
capitals = ['madrid', 'paris', 'berlin', 'oslo']

# Get index of 'germany': ind_ger


# Use ind_ger to print out capital of Germany

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