What is the major difference btw list and dictionary in python?

Question

Please give an eleborated answer. P.s. I am totally new to python, thanks in advance

Answer 1

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Answer 2

List is a set of values accessible by index (ordinal number):
mylist = [1,2,'solo','learn', 4.57]
index starts with zero, so the first element of the list has index 0 and the last - list's lenght - 1:
>>> print(mylist[0])
1

Dicrtionary is a kind of set of pairs of key-value. Just think of it as of a common dictionary wich has word and it's definition. It means, that you can access each value by its key, not index.

>>> mydict = {1:'a', 'akey':'avalue', 'onemore':4.75}
>>> print(mydict['akey'])
avalue

You can add a value to a list just by appending it, but you need to add both key and value to add a value to a dictionary.

Both list and dictionary values could be lists themselves.