Question

What will be displayed after the following code executes? (Note: the order of the display of entries in a dictionary are not in a specific order.) cities = {'GA' : 'Atlanta', 'NY' : 'Albany', 'CA' : 'San Diego'} if 'FL' in cities: del cities['FL'] cities['FL'] = 'Tallahassee' print(cities)

Answer 1

Answer:

Nothing will be printed

Explanation:

You can easily find out that FL is not a member of the Dictionary. And we are checking these in the if. Since the if condition ends up being false, the further process will not run as they will only if the condition ends up being true. Hence, nothing will be printed.

Remember, del is used to delete a dictionary item. If this would have been a true condition for if then the FL item in the dictionary would have been deleted as it, in that case, would have been present there. And then the next line would have again added the FL item, and print would have printed the dictionary items with FL item as well. However, since if the condition is ending up being false, nothing will be printed.

If cities['FL'] and print is outside if then

the output will be

{'FL': 'Tallahassee', 'GA': 'Atlanta', 'NY': 'Albany', 'CA': 'San Diego'}