Python dictionary implementation – Laurent Luce's BlogThis post describes how dictionaries are implemented in the Python language. Dictionaries are indexed by keys and they can be seen as associative arrays. Let’s add 3 key/value pairs to a dictionary: >>> d = {'a': 1, 'b': 2} >>> d['c'] = 3 >>> d {'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3} The values can be accessed this way: >>> d['a'] 1 >>> d['b'] 2 >>> d['c'] 3 >>> d['d'] Traceback (most recent call last): File "<s
