Question

The variable most_recent_novel is associated with a dictionary that maps the names of novelists to their most recently published novels. Write a statement that replaces the value "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" with the value "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" for the key "J.K. Rawling".

Answer 1

To update the most recent novel of J.K. Rowling in the 'most_recent_novel' dictionary, assign the new novel title to the key 'J.K. Rowling'. Be sure to correct the author's name if it was misspelled in your dictionary.

Step-by-step explanation:

The student's question involves updating a value within a dictionary in Python. If most_recent_novel is your dictionary and you want to update the novel associated with the novelist J.K. Rowling (correct spelling), you can do this by assigning a new value to the key representing the novelist. Here's how you can write the statement:

most_recent_novel['J.K. Rowling'] = 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'

Note that the spelling of J.K. Rowling's name is incorrect in the question. It's important to use the correct key when updating the dictionary value. Assuming 'J.K. Rawling' was a typo, the correct key is 'J.K. Rowling'.

Answer 2

"most_recent_novel['J.K. Rawling']='Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'" is a statement which do the task which is told by the question.

Step-by-step explanation:

• The above question have one dictonary which have some value for the key "J.K. Rawling". The value can be changed for the same variable and for this key by the help of above statement.
• The dictonary is used in the python, if a user wants to use the dictonary then he can do this by the help of "varible_name={key:value}" and can be accessed or canged by the help of "variable_name[key]".