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I'm an amateur when it comes to programming, but I'm trying my hand at Python. Basically what I want to be able to do is use math on a dictionary value. The only way I could think to do it would be to assign a dictionary value to a variable, then assign the new value to the dictionary. Something like this: my_dictionary { 'foo' = 10, 'bar' = 20, } variable = my_dictionary['foo'] new_variable += variable my_dictionary['foo'] = new_variable However, when I try to assign a variable this way, I get a syntax error. Is there a better and straightforward way to do this? EDIT: Also, I am only using this as an example. Let's say this is a block of code, not the entire program. The fact that new variable has not been declared is completely irrelevant, I just want to know how to perform math to a dictionary value. Also, I am attempting to access a dictionary outside of the function I have my code in.
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