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Accessing Dictionary Items

You can access dictionary items by referring to their key name, inside square brackets, or by using the get() method.

Using Square Brackets

Example: Accessing a Value by Key

# Accessing dictionary items
person = {"name": "Vijay", "age": 25, "city": "Madurai"}
name = person["name"]
print("Name:", name)

Name: Vijay

Using get() Method

Example: Accessing a Value Using get()

# Using get() method
age = person.get("age")
print("Age:", age)

Age: 25

Accessing Keys, Values, and Items

Example: Using keys(), values(), and items()

# Accessing keys, values, and items
keys = person.keys()
values = person.values()
items = person.items()
print("Keys:", keys)
print("Values:", values)
print("Items:", items)

Keys: dict_keys(['name', 'age', 'city'])

Values: dict_values(['Vijay', 25, 'Madurai'])

Items: dict_items([('name', 'Vijay'), ('age', 25), ('city', 'Madurai')])

Explanation: The keys(), values(), and items() methods return views of the dictionary's keys, values, and key-value pairs, respectively. These views can be iterated over in loops.

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