How to Add Item in Dictionary Python?

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This post is focused on how to add item in dictionary python. Here you will learn python dictionary add item. you can understand a concept of python dictionary add item if not exists. step by step explain how to add new item in dictionary python.

There are several ways to add a new item to a dictionary in python. I will give you simple two examples using adding index and value and update() method. so let's see the below examples:

You can use these examples with python3 (Python 3) version.

Example 1:

main.py

user = {
  "ID": 1,
  "name": "Hardik Savani",
  "email": "hardik@gmail.com"
}
  
# Adding new "bithdate" to dictionary
user["bithdate"] = "1994/07/01"
  
print(user)

Output:

{
 'ID': 1,
 'bithdate': '1994/07/01',
 'email': 'hardik@gmail.com',
 'name': 'Hardik Savani'
}

Example 2:

main.py

user = {
  "ID": 1,
  "name": "Hardik Savani",
  "email": "hardik@gmail.com"
}
    
# Adding new "bithdate" to dictionary
user.update({"bithdate": "1994/07/01"})
    
print(user)

Output:

{
 'ID': 1,
 'bithdate': '1994/07/01',
 'email': 'hardik@gmail.com',
 'name': 'Hardik Savani'
}

I hope it can help you...