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Topic ==>	Dictionaries (2 exercises)
Level ==>	Average difficulty
Subject ==>	Python training

Use a dictionary to hold details of the tallest buildings in the world, then list its items

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The 6 tallest buildings in the world (as of April 2023 anyway) are as follows:

At 310 metres tall, The Shard in London is the world's 96th tallest building (it's not even the tallest in Europe now, alas).

Create a program which stores this information in a dictionary using:

The building name as the key; and
A tuple or list containing the building's rank, city, country and height in metres as the value for each entry.

As a reminder of the syntax for working with dictionaries, this code would list out the names and colours of the Wise Owls' cats:

# create a dictionary of Wise Owl cats

cats = {

"Agatha": "Black and white",

"Annie": "Tortoiseshell",

"Marv": "Not sure",

"Neo": "Black and white",

"Sabrina": "Black",

"Salem": "Black"

}

# loop over dictionary's records

for cat_name, colour in cats.items():

print(cat_name + " is " + colour)

Now loop over the items in this dictionary to print out the contents, to get something like this:

Each dictionary item's value will contain a list or tuple, so you'll need to extract the building information from this each time round the loop.

Finally, something to ponder: was a dictionary the most suitable way to store this data or not?

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Use a dictionary to hold details of the tallest buildings in the world, then list its items

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