[ Thanks to Brendan Scott for this link. ]
“So, a ‘dictionary’ has (key, value) pairs apparently.
What are these things? You can think of dictionaries as a
generalisation of lists. In our earlier examples we got the
contents of the lists by a number.
“The number 0 was used to store the question in the trivia list (if
you’ve forgotten it was in this tute). In that case the number 0
was the ‘key’, and the text of the question was the
‘value’.”
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