values for the keys allows you to organize your data in powerful ways say you wanted your program to store data about your friendsbirthdays you can use dictionary with the names as keys and the birthdays as values open new file editor window and enter the following code save it as birthdays py birthdays {'alice''apr ''bob''dec ''carol''mar 'while trueprint('enter name(blank to quit)'name input(if name =''break if name in birthdaysprint(birthdays[nameis the birthday of nameelseprint(' do not have birthday information for nameprint('what is their birthday?'bday input(birthdays[namebday print('birthday database updated 'you can view the execution of this program at you create an initial dictionary and store it in birthdays you can see if the entered name exists as key in the dictionary with the in keyword just as you did for lists if the name is in the dictionaryyou access the associated value using square brackets if notyou can add it using the same square bracket syntax combined with the assignment operator when you run this programit will look like thisenter name(blank to quitalice apr is the birthday of alice enter name(blank to quiteve do not have birthday information for eve what is their birthdaydec birthday database updated enter name(blank to quiteve dec is the birthday of eve enter name(blank to quitof courseall the data you enter in this program is forgotten when the program terminates you'll learn how to save data to files on the hard drive in dictionaries and structuring data