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Petko Delchev
Courses Plus Student 2,103 PointsHow to add user input in dictionaries?
I can't understand how to add user input in dict:
Lets say:
I want driver to be the key: Vehicle assigned to the driver to be a value:
driver = input("Driver>") vehicle = input("Vehicle>")
I want these to in a dict:
database = {driver : vehicle }
2 Answers
Greg Kaleka
39,021 PointsHi Petko,
It looks like you're not quite thinking about dictionaries in the right way. Dictionaries should be key-value pairs, like this:
{'driver': 'Petko', 'vehicle': 'Porche Cyanne'}
Where 'driver' and 'vehicle' are the keys you use to look up the values 'Petko' and 'Porche Cyanne'. You would look these up with database['driver'], for example.
If you wanted to do that with user input you would do something similar:
driver_given = input("Driver> ")
vehicle_given = input("Vehicle> ")
database = {}
database['driver'] = driver_given
database['vehicle'] = vehicle_given
# {'driver': 'Greg', 'vehicle': 'Honda Civic'}, for example. I'm a man of simple tastes when it comes to cars.
Note this may not be exactly what you want, but the concept of key and value is one should keep in mind.
Hope this is helpful!
Cheers
-Greg
Hasan Ahmad
6,727 Pointsi would assume you would do something like this:
driver = input('driver >> ')
vehicle = input('vehicle >> ')
combo = {}
combo[driver] = vehicle