Lets say I have the following code

resources = {
    "water": 300,
    "milk": 200,
    "coffee": 100,
}

def test_function():
    resources['water'] = 500


test_function()
print(resources)

The program compiles and prints out: {‘water’: 500, ‘milk’: 200, ‘coffee’: 100}
Great!
Now lets say I have another piece of code:

test_variable = 0


def test_function():
    test_variable = 1


test_function()
print(test_variable)

It prints out: 0. Now I know what you are going to say: You need to use the ‘global’ keyword so the test_function changes to test_variable to 0. Well it seems you don’t need the global keyword for dictionaries. Why is that? And I’m not looking for a deep technical explanation. Wouldn’t you agree that people who are new to code/Python would intuitively think that a dictionary would also need a ‘global’ keyword?