14.7 Nested Dictionaries

By | October 4, 2021

Nested Dictionaries

A dictionary can contain dictionaries, this is called nested dictionaries.

Example

Create a dictionary that contain three dictionaries:
myfamily = {
  “child1” : {
    “name” : “Emil”,
    “year” : 2004
  },
  “child2” : {
    “name” : “Tobias”,
    “year” : 2007
  },
  “child3” : {
    “name” : “Linus”,
    “year” : 2011
  }
}

Output:
{‘child1’: {‘name’: ‘Emil’, ‘year’: 2004}, ‘child2’: {‘name’: ‘Tobias’, ‘year’: 2007}, ‘child3’: {‘name’: ‘Linus’, ‘year’: 2011}}

Or, if you want to add three dictionaries into a new dictionary:

Example

Create three dictionaries, then create one dictionary that will contain the other three dictionaries:
child1 = {
  “name” : “Emil”,
  “year” : 2004
}
child2 = {
  “name” : “Tobias”,
  “year” : 2007
}
child3 = {
  “name” : “Linus”,
  “year” : 2011
}

myfamily = {
  “child1” : child1,
  “child2” : child2,
  “child3” : child3
}

Output:
{‘child1’: {‘name’: ‘Emil’, ‘year’: 2004}, ‘child2’: {‘name’: ‘Tobias’, ‘year’: 2007}, ‘child3’: {‘name’: ‘Linus’, ‘year’: 2011}}

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