Convert a text file content to a dictionary...

[David Eppstein]

In article <w4E%9.4467$vL2.1781 at tornadotest1.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
 Tyler Eaves <tyler at cg1.org> wrote:

> If you mean, as I see most likely, that you want the first column to be the
> key, and the second the value, the below willt work.
> 
> import string
> file = open('yourfile','r')
> dict = {}
> for l in file.readlines():
>     d = string.split(string.strip(l))
>     dict[d[0]] = d[1]

Or, more succinctly:

D = dict([line.strip().split('\t') for line in file])

(btw, probably bad form to call your dict dict, since that shadows the 
type name...)

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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
eppstein at ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/