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   "source": [
    "# Course Notes for Learning Intelligent Systems"
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   "source": [
    "Department of Telematic Engineering Systems, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, © 2015 Carlos A. Iglesias"
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   "source": [
    "# Built-in Types: Sets and Mappings"
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    "* *Sets* are unordered bags of values\n",
    "* *Dictionaries* are unordered bags of key-values pairs\n",
    "\n",
    "A set object is an unordered collection of distinct objects. There are two built-in set types: **set** (mutable) and **frozenset** (inmutable).\n",
    "\n",
    "A mapping object maps hashable values to arbitrary objects. Mappings are mutable objects. There is only one bultin mapping type: **dictionary**."
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   "source": [
    "## 1. Sets"
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       "set()"
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    "my_set = set() #create a set\n",
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    "my_set.add(1) # add an element\n",
    "my_set"
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    "my_set.add(2) # add another element"
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       "{1, 2}"
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    "my_set"
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       "{1, 2, 3}"
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    "my_set.add(3) # add another one\n",
    "my_set"
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    "my_set.add(1) #try to add a repeated element\n",
    "my_set"
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       "{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}"
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   "source": [
    "s2 = set(range(10)) # we can create a set from a range\n",
    "s2"
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   "source": [
    "l = ['a', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'c']"
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    "s3 = set(l) # if we create a set from a list, elements are not repeated\n",
    "s3"
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       "3"
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    "len(s3) "
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       "{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 'c', 6, 7, 8, 9, 'a', 'b'}"
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    "s3.union(s2) # we can use set methods: union(), intersection(), difference(), ..."
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       "True"
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    "3 in my_set #check membership"
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       "set"
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    "type(s3)"
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   "source": [
    "## 2. Dictionaries"
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       "{'key1': 1, 'key2': 2, 'key3': 3}"
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    "my_dictionary = {'key1': 1, 'key2': 2, 'key3': 3} # pairs of key-value mappings\n",
    "my_dictionary"
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    "my_dictionary['key1'] #retrieve a value given a key"
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       "{'key1': 1, 'key2': 2, 'key3': 3}"
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    "my_dict = dict()\n",
    "my_dict['key1'] = 1\n",
    "my_dict['key2'] = 2\n",
    "my_dict['key3'] = 3\n",
    "my_dict # alternative way to create a dictionary "
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       "True"
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    "my_dict == my_dictionary # check if both dictionaries are equal"
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       "{'one': {'two': {'three': 'Nested dict'}}}"
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    "my_dict2 = {'one': {'two': {'three': 'Nested dict'}}} #nested dictionary\n",
    "my_dict2"
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       "'Nested dict'"
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    "my_dict2['one']['two']['three'] #access the value"
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   "source": [
    "Dictionaries have different methods, check them with Tab."
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   "execution_count": 473,
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       "dict_keys(['key2', 'key3', 'key1'])"
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     "execution_count": 473,
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   "source": [
    "my_dict.keys() # in Python3 we get a View object that changes when the dictionary changes"
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       "['key2', 'key3', 'key1']"
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     "execution_count": 478,
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    "list(my_dict.keys()) # we can convert it to a list, we see dicionaries are unordered"
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   "execution_count": 474,
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       "dict_values([2, 3, 1])"
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     "execution_count": 474,
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    "my_dict.values()"
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   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 476,
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    {
     "data": {
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       "[2, 3, 1]"
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     "execution_count": 476,
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   "source": [
    "list(my_dict.values())"
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   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 479,
   "metadata": {
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    {
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       "dict"
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     },
     "execution_count": 479,
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   ],
   "source": [
    "type(my_dict)"
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   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "# Licence"
   ]
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   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "The notebook is freely licensed under under the [Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/).  \n",
    "\n",
    "© 2015 Carlos A. Iglesias, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid."
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