[Tutor] help on dic creation

[Alan Gauld]

On 31/10/12 01:01, Brayden Zhao wrote:

> Here is my code and I dont know why my code is only reading the 500th
> line of the file. Thanks for your help!
>
> def fieldict(filename):
>    D={}
>    with open(filename) as FileObject:
>      for lines in FileObject:
>        linelist=lines.split('\t')
>        Key=linelist[0]
>        ValCity=(linelist[12]).strip()
>        ValState=linelist[13]
>        ValOne=linelist[2]
>        ValTwo=linelist[6]
>        ValThree=boolean(linelist[7])

You are assigning each line to the same variable.
So at the end of the loop ypou have the values of the last line.
You need to build a collection.

HTH
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Alan G
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