Python Nested Dictionaries

Nested Dictionaries

A dictionary can also contain many 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
}
}

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Or, if you want to nest three dictionaries that already exists as dictionaries:

Example

Create three dictionaries, than 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
}

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Python Nested Dictionaries

Nested Dictionaries

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