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I have been looking over the Python documentation for code formatting best practice for large lists and dictionaries, for example,
something = {'foo' : 'bar', 'foo2' : 'bar2', 'foo3' : 'bar3'..... 200 chars wide, etc..} or
something = {'foo' : 'bar', 'foo2' : 'bar2', 'foo3' : 'bar3', ... } or
something = { 'foo' : 'bar', 'foo2' : 'bar2', 'foo3' : 'bar3', ... } How do I handle deep nesting of lists/dictionaries?
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Therefore, the dictionary is faster than a list in Python. It is more efficient to use dictionaries for the lookup of elements as it is faster than a list and takes less time to traverse. Moreover, lists keep the order of the elements while dictionary does not.
Use format() function to format dictionary print in Python. Its in-built String function is used for the purpose of formatting strings according to the position. Python Dictionary can also be passed to format() function as a value to be formatted.
The reason is because a dictionary is a lookup, while a list is an iteration. Dictionary uses a hash lookup, while your list requires walking through the list until it finds the result from beginning to the result each time.
Since dictionaries in Python 3.5 don't remember the order of their items, you don't know the order in the resulting ordered dictionary until the object is created. From this point on, the order is maintained. Since Python 3.6, functions retain the order of keyword arguments passed in a call.
My preferred way is:
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