dictionary methods

Question 1

are dictionaries indexable?

Answer 1

yes, indexed by keys rather than numerical position

you can ‘look things up’

indices of dictionaries are keys of arbitrary value

Question 2

method that takes a key as an argument and returns the value associated with it

if the key doesn’t exist it will return none

Answer 2

.get()

Question 3

takes a key as an argument and returns the value but also deleting the kay-value pair

Answer 3

.pop()

mutating method

returns KeyError is key isn’t in the dictionary

Question 4

deletes the entire contents

Answer 4

.clear()