.fromkeys()
Published May 23, 2022
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The .fromkeys()
method returns a dictionary with a specified set of keys. It can also initialize the entries with a specified value.
Syntax
dict.fromkeys(keys,value)
Where keys
is an iterable containing the keys for the new dictionary and value
is an optional initial value for the new entries in the dictionary. If value
is not specified, the default initial value for each key will be None
.
Codebyte Example
The following example creates a new dictionary with an initial value for each key.
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