Python for ENCOR

A fair amount of the automation material on the ENCOR exam assumes some basic, practical Python skills — specifically, reading and writing data files, sending REST API requests, and making sense of the responses that come back. This article covers the foundational piece that everything else builds on: working with Python dictionaries and the JSON data they map to.

Python Dictionaries

A Python dictionary is created with curly braces and stores data as key-value pairs — for example, holding someone’s name and age together in a single object:

# This creates a Python object (dictionary type):
data = {
"name": "John",
"age": 25
}