Appendix E — dict Methods

A detailed tutorial on using dictionaries (dicts) can be found on the RealPython website. A full list of methods with clickable definitions can be found here.

Table E.1: List of methods on a dict object

Method	Description
clear	Removes all the elements from the dictionary
copy	Returns a copy of the dictionary
fromkeys	Returns a dictionary with the specified keys and value
get	Returns the value of the specified key
items	Returns a list containing a tuple for each key value pair
keys	Returns a list containing the dictionary’s keys
pop	Removes the element with the specified key
popitem	Removes the last inserted key-value pair
setdefault	Returns the value of the specified key. If the key does not exist: insert the key, with the specified value
update	Updates the dictionary with the specified key-value pairs
values	Returns a list of all the values in the dictionary