27 May 2022 Juliano Luiz Faccioni 5 Ways to Create a Dictionary in Python Want to step up your Python game? Learn how to create dictionaries in Python from many different sources, including reading from JSON files and combining two dictionaries. So, you've already figured out how to use dictionaries in Python. You know all about how dictionaries are mutable data structures that hold key-value pairs. You understand you must provide a key to the dictionary to retrieve a value. But you may not have realized dictionaries in Python come in all shapes and sizes and from all kinds of sources. Read more