You access Python dictionary keys using the syntax: my_dicy[my_key] For example: >>> my_dict = {'food': 'idly'} >>> my_dict['food'] 'idly' Sometimes, you might want to access the dictionary keys using: my_dict.my_key syntax. If you do this is what happens: >>> my_dict.food Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'food' How can you solve this? Easy. pip install attrdict How do you use the newly installed package?