Access dictionary

If the keys of a dictionary are chosen wisely, accessing the values in a dictionary is easy and intuitive. For example, to get the capital for France from europe you can use:

europe['france']

Here, 'france' is the key and 'paris' the value is returned.

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Intermediate Python

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Exercise instructions

Check out which keys are in europe by calling the keys() method on europe. Print out the result.
Print out the value that belongs to the key 'norway'.

Hands-on interactive exercise

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

# Definition of dictionary
europe = {'spain':'madrid', 'france':'paris', 'germany':'berlin', 'norway':'oslo' }

# Print out the keys in europe


# Print out value that belongs to key 'norway'

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