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A dict: look things up by name
A dict (dictionary) maps keys to values. Instead of "give me item number 2", you say "give me the value filed under this key", like a coat-check ticket:
owners = {"billing": "ana", "search": "ben"}
print(owners["search"]) # ben — look up by key
To walk every pair, use .items(), which hands you the key and the value together:
for team, person in owners.items():
print(team, person)
Lists are for order and sequence; dicts are for labelled lookup. The editor opens with your script from the previous step.
Your task
Make a dict replicas = {"web": 3, "api": 2}. Print web: 3 by looking up the key, then loop .items() printing <name> -> <n> for each.