fileinput.input, readlines and ...

[Peter Otten]

Scott David Daniels wrote:

> Peter Otten wrote:

>> with open(filename) as instream:
>>     lines = (line.strip() for line in lines)
>>     lookup =  dict(zip(lines, lines))

> Little bit of a fluff-up here.  

Sorry, it should have been

with open(filename) as instream:
    lines = (line.strip() for line in instream)
    lookup =  dict(zip(lines, lines))

> Perhaps something like:
> 
>      with open(filename) as instream:
>          lines = (line.strip() for line in instream)
>      lookup = dict(zip(lines[::2], lines[1::2]))

Tu quoque ;)

Peter