# this saves you from having to add quotes around any strings/characters (keys only)
dic1 = dict(a=1, b=2, c=3, d=4)
 
print dic1   # {'a': 1, 'c': 3, 'b': 2, 'd': 4}

str1 = "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten"
# after babelfish.altavista.com  English to French translation
str2 = "un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf, dix"
 
engList = str1.split(", ")
frenList = str2.split(", ")
eng2frenDict = {}
k = 0
for eng in engList:
    eng2frenDict[eng] = frenList[k]
    k += 1
 
print eng2frenDict
""" result =
{'seven': 'sept', 'ten': 'dix', 'nine': 'neuf', 'six': 'six', 'three': 'trois', 
'two': 'deux', 'four': 'quatre', 'five': 'cinq', 'eight': 'huit', 'one': 'un'}
"""

str1 = "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten"
str2 = "un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf, dix"
 
engList = str1.split(", ")
frenList = str2.split(", ")
eng2frenDict = dict(zip(engList, frenList))
print eng2frenDict

# count the characters in a string and create a dictionary of char:count pairs
 
str1 = 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'
print "Count the characters in:  %s" % str1
charCount = {}
for char in str1:
    charCount[char] = charCount.get(char, 0) + 1
 
print charCount  # {'a': 3, 'c': 3, 'e': 2, 'd': 1, 'g': 1, ... }

emptyD1 = {}
emptyD2 = dict()
print emptD1, emptyD2

dict1 = {'a':1, 'b':2, 'c':3, 'd':4}  # etc.
print dic1

dic2 = {}
dic2['Linux'] = 'software'
dic2['floppy'] = 'accessory'
dic2['floppy drive'] = 'hardware'
dic2['CPU'] = 'hardware'     # etc.
print dic2