Question

Consider the following dictionary stateCapital:

stateCapital = {"AndhraPradesh":"Hyderabad",
"Bihar":"Patna","Maharashtra":"Mumbai",
"Rajasthan":"Jaipur"}

Find the output of the following statement:

del stateCapital["Rajasthan"]
print(stateCapital)

Answer 1

del stateCapital["Andhra Pradesh"] will return an error as the key ‘Andhra Pradesh’ is not present in the dictionary. (‘Andhra Pradesh’ and ‘AndhraPradesh’ are different). However, if the key is present it will delete the key: value pair from the dictionary. If the statement is del stateCapital["AndhraPradesh"], print(stateCapital) will then print the remaining key: value pair. {'Bihar': 'Patna', 'Maharashtra': 'Mumbai', 'Rajasthan': 'Jaipur'}