How to add key,value pair to dictionary?

Question

Hi Friends, How to add key,value pair to dictionary?.Below i have mentioned following format?

{'1_somemessage': [[3L,
                    1L,
                    u'AAA',
                    1689544L,
                    datetime.datetime(2010, 9, 21, 22, 30),
                    u'gffggf'],
                   [3L,
                    1L,
                    u'BBB',
                    1689544L,
                    datetime.datetime(2010, 9, 21, 20, 30),
                    u'ffgffgfg'],
                   [3L,
                    1L,
                    u'CCC',
                    1689544L,
                    datetime.datetime(2010, 9, 21, 22, 30),
                    u'hjhjhjhj'],
                   [3L,
                    1L,
                    u'DDD',
                    1689544L,
                    datetime.datetime(2010, 9, 21, 21, 45),
                    u'jhhjjh']],
 '2_somemessage': [[4L,
                    1L,
                    u'AAA',
                    1689544L,
                    datetime.datetime(2010, 9, 21, 22, 30),
                    u'gffggf'],
                   [4L,
                    1L,
                    u'BBB',
                    1689544L,
                    datetime.datetime(2010, 9, 21, 20, 30),
                    u'ffgffgfg'],
                   [4L,
                    1L,
                    u'CCC',
                    1689544L,
                    datetime.datetime(2010, 9, 21, 22, 30),
                    u'hjhjhjhj'],
                   [4L,
                    1L,
                    u'DDD',
                    1689544L,
                    datetime.datetime(2010, 9, 21, 21, 45),
                    u'jhhjjh']]}

Answer 1

Add a key, value pair to dictionary

aDict = {}
aDict[key] = value

What do you mean by dynamic addition.

Answer 2

I am not sure what you mean by "dynamic". If you mean adding items to a dictionary at runtime, it is as easy as dictionary[key] = value.

If you wish to create a dictionary with key,value to start with (at compile time) then use (surprise!)

dictionary[key] = value

Answer 3

If you want to add a new record in the form

newRecord = [4L, 1L, u'DDD', 1689544L, datetime.datetime(2010, 9, 21, 21, 45), u'jhhjjh']

to messageName where messageName in the form X_somemessage can, but does not have to be in your dictionary, then do it this way:

myDict.setdefault(messageName, []).append(newRecord)

This way it will be appended to an existing messageName or a new list will be created for a new messageName.