Using Dictionaries In Place of If-conditions

Dictionaries are mainly used as a data structure in Python for maintaining key-value pairs.

However, there's another special use case that dictionaries can handle. This is — Eliminating IF conditions from your code.

Consider the code snippet above. Here, corresponding to an input value, we invoke a specific function. The traditional way requires you to hard-code every case.

But with a dictionary, you can directly retrieve the corresponding function by providing it with the key. This makes your code concise and elegant.

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