iterate through a dictionary with duplicate keys python

Question

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Answer 1

A dictionary can contain only one instance of a key.

If you print your dictionary object dictk, you will see it has all distinct keys.

dictk={"hi":1, "hi":3, "o":7, "o":2, "p":1, "e":5}
print(dictk)

Output:

{'hi': 3, 'o': 2, 'p': 1, 'e': 5}

You'll need a list of values to have multiple values for a key.

If you have repeated keys then the last value will overwrite other values written previously for that key.