<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jerome Jabson</b> <<a href="mailto:jjabson@yahoo.com">jjabson@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm having problems trying to parse a text file and<br>separating it's contents into a dictionary. The file<br>as something like:<br><br>name<br>This is the description of the name.<br><br>another_name<br>Another description of this name.
<br><br>The dictionary should look like:<br><br>dict = {name: This is the description of the name.,<br>another_name: Another discription of this name}<br><br>I tried doing something like:<br><br>dict = {}</blockquote><div>
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don't ever use builtin names for variable names. It'll bite you. <br>
mydict = {}<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">f = open("text-file", "r)<br>for line in f:<br> items = line<br>
dict[items[0]] = items[1:]<br>print dict</blockquote><div><br>
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</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">but the dictionary comes out all wrong! :-( </blockquote><div><br>
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Describe "all wrong"? From your code above, I suspect you get the first
letter of the name as the key, rather than the whole name. You need to
split the line into separate words then rejoin them with ' '.join() for
the value. <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Can<br>someone give me some pointers on how to do this.</blockquote><div><br>
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f = open("namer.txt", "r")<br>
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mydict = {}<br>
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for line in f:<br>
l = line.split()<br>
mydict[l[0]] = ' '.join(l[1:])<br>
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print mydict<br>
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</div>HTH<br>
Anna</div><br>