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Dictionaries for Categorization

Dictionaries for Categorization

Learn Python dictionaries by grouping meals by type (e.g., Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner).

The project

You’ve been tracking your meal calories daily, but right now they’re just numbers in a list. Wouldn’t it be more useful if you could organize meals by type? For example, group all breakfasts together, all lunches together, and all dinners together.

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Typing just:

Breakfast: 400
Lunch: 600
Dinner: 300

It's nice, but it doesn’t help you calculate totals for each category. What you need is a dictionary, a structure that stores data as key–value pairs so you can categorize and organize calories by meal type.

Your project: Build a Healthy Meals Dictionary Tracker that groups meals into categories (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner), calculates totals for each, and shows the overall daily total.

The programming concept

Imagine you’re making a contacts app. ...