Python Dictionaries and List Comprehensions

Today’s topics

• Dictionaries
• Tuples
• Lists and list comprehensions

🐍 Code Break

• Try working with lists
• Practice with list comprehensions

🎯 Project

Continue yesterday’s project, Word Frequency. A dictionary will help you solve the problem of counting words.

At minimum you should be able to count words and print that count, even if the formatting of your output is not 100% on point.

🔖 Resources

• RealPython: Python lists and tuples
• Python Docs: List comprehensions
• Python list comprehensions explained visually
• RealPython: Sorting in Python
• Python Docs: Dictionaries

🦉 Code & Notes

• What does if __name__ == "__main__" do?
• Notes: Lists, Dicts, and Tuples
• Intro to Python notebooks (Notebooks 8-11)