One of the only times you need to use curly brackets in python...

Lets say you wanted to create values for something... lets say a person.
You can make a class, or you can make a dictionary.

person = {"smarts":74,"looks":56,"power":49}

here, lets clean this up a bit.

person = {
    "smarts":74,
    "looks":56,
    "power":49
}

So now, we have a dictionary with the values of the person's smarts, looks, and power.
But how would you call one of these?
Like this:

person = {
    "smarts":74,
    "looks":56,
    "power":49
}
print(person['smarts'])
# output: 74

person is the dictionary, and ['smarts'] is one of the values of a key, so it will print the value of smarts, which is 74.
If you just print person -

print(person)

it will give you this:

{"smarts":74,"looks":56,"power":49}

Lets say you wanted to format the print statement to print everything in a readable way. You would do this:

for value in person: #"value" is smarts, looks, and power
    print(f'{value}: {person[value]}')

and the output would be:

smarts: 74
looks: 56
power: 49

so value is the name of the key, and person[value] is the value of that key.

and now... embedded dictionaries!

yes, you can have a dictionary inside of another dictionary.

things = {
    "cars": { #cars is now a dictionary inside of things
        "speed": 85,
        "looks": 50,
    }, #remember the comma!
    "language": "python3", #language is not inside of cars
}

so to call something inside of an embedded dictionary, you do this:

car_speed = things['cars']['speed']

lets break this down
car_speed: the variable we are assigning this to
things: the dictionary with the value
['cars']: inside of the cars dictionary
['speed']: the value of speed
so...
car_speed would equal 85.

Another cool way you can print the values is like this:

for x in things: # everything in things (cars, language)
    if type(things[x]) == dict: #if it is a dictionary
        print(f'{x} - ') #print it like this
        for y in things[x]: #for everything in the dictionary (speed, looks)
            print(f'\t{y}: {things[x][y]}') #print them like this
    else: #if it's not a dictionary
        print(f'{x}: {things[x]}') #print it like this

and the output is:

cars - 
    speed: 85
    looks: 50
language: python3

you can have even MORE embedded dictionaries, such as:

master_dict = {
    inside1: {
        inside2: {
            inside 3: {
                #and so on...
            },
        },
    },
}

Changing the values

so, what if you wanted to change a value inside of a dictionary?

user_input = {} #empty dictionary
print(user_input)
added_input = input('type something: ')
user_input['input 1'] = added_input
print(user_input)

and then, if you type "Hello, world!", the dictionary key input 1 will be added with the value of Hello, world!

{}
type something: Hello, world!
{'input 1': 'Hello, world!'}

Copying dictionaries

Same as a list, if you do this:

dict1 = {'key1': 'value'}
dict2 = dict1
dict2['key1'] = 'new value'

It will also change the value of the original dictionary.
Instead, you need to use .copy()

dict1 = {'key1': 'value'}
dict2 = dict1.copy()
dict2['key1'] = 'new value'

and now, the values will be different.
If you want to only copy a key/value in the dictionary and not the whole thing, do this:

dict1 = {'key1': 'value','other key': 754}
dict2['other key'] = int(dict1['other key'])
dict2['other key'] += 90

Again, the values will be different.
Note: if the value of the key you want to copy is not int, change it to it, such as if it is a string, use str, or if it is a dictionary, use dict.

Removing keys

If you want to delete a key, use del.

dictionary = {"delete this": "please"}
del dictionary["delete this"]

And now, dictionary will have the value of {}.

If you have any questions or want me to explain anything more, I will be glad to.