dictionaries finallythe last data structure that we'll see lot in python is dictionaryand you can think of that as map or hash table in other languages it' way to basically have sort of mini-databasesort of key/value data store that' built into python so let' sayi want to build up little dictionary of star trek ships and their captainsi can set up dbqubjot \^where curly brackets indicates an empty dictionary now can use this sort of syntax to assign entries in my dictionaryso can say dbqubjot for &oufsqsjtf is ,jslfor &oufsqsjtfit is jdbsefor %ffq qbdf/jof it is jtlpand for pzbhfs it is +bofxbz now havebasicallythis lookup table that will associate ship names with their captainand can sayfor exampleqsjoudbqubjotand get back +bofxbz very useful tool for basically doing lookups of some sort let' say you have some sort of an identifier in dataset that maps to some human-readable name you'll probably be using dictionary to actually do that look up when you're printing it out