Dictionaries represent a collection of data that is related to another piece of data known as a key. Dictionaries expose the ability to search for, delete and insert data into a collection.
Essentially, we can think of a dictionary as a really smart way to look something up.
While dictionary functionality has been available in Dynamo for some time, Dynamo 2.0 introduces a new way of managing this data type.
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