Introduction to Python. Part 6. Dictionaries Dictionaries (dict) and their methods Let's talk about dictionaries. Not those, of course, that were compiled by Dahl or Ozhegov, but about dictionaries in Python. A dictionary in Python is an unordered collection of elements. Let's use an example to understand what it is and how it works. Video: Gleb Limansky You can create an empty dictionary using curly braces. Or using the dict() function.