This could be a handy way to quickly grab phone numbers of friends. That is how to add to a dictionary in Python and much more. But what is a dictionary useful for and why would you want to use one?

So I'm not a programmer, I took a few classes ages ago, but there are some Python scripts ... figure out how to add each API response to inhabit a separate "folder" in the dictionary.

Python, for all its power and popularity, has long lacked a form of flow control found in other languages—a way to take a value and match it elegantly against one of a number of possible conditions.