This post explains how to add to a dictionary in Python, create new dictionaries, and more. Powerful data manipulation is now within your grasp!

What I'm trying to do is call an API and get a chunk of JSON data, then store it in a nested dictionary, as I iterate through a list of strings. (000, 001, 004, etc.) ...

Use Python lists to store data in one-dimensional rows, access them by indexes, and sort them any which way you like.