Chapter 11 Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, students will be able to:

• Explain what a dictionary is in Python
• Create dictionaries with entries
• Explain what it means to say that "dictionaries are mutable"
• Describe the types of keys that a dictionary may have
• Access individual elements of a dictionary
• Modify individual elements of a dictionary
• Loop through the elements of a dictionary
• Use dictionary methods such as keys(), values(), and get()
• Explain what is a tuple and how they differ from lists
• Explain how tuple assignment works
• Create and implement a function that produces a tuple