Add a new item to a dictionary in Python [duplicate]

Question

I want to add an item to an existing dictionary in Python. For example, this is my dictionary:

default_data = {             'item1': 1,             'item2': 2, } 

I want to add a new item such that:

default_data = default_data + {'item3':3} 

How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

default_data['item3'] = 3 

Easy as py.

Another possible solution:

default_data.update({'item3': 3}) 

which is nice if you want to insert multiple items at once.