eval to dict problems NEWB going crazy !

[manstey]

Hi,

I have a text file called a.txt:

# comments
[('recId', 3), ('parse', {'pos': u'np', 'gen': u'm'})]
[('recId', 5), ('parse', {'pos': u'np', 'gen': u'm'})]
[('recId', 7 ), ('parse', {'pos': u'np', 'gen': u'm'})]

I read it using this:

filAnsMorph = codecs.open('a.txt', 'r', 'utf-8') # Initialise input
file
dicAnsMorph = {}
for line in filAnsMorph:
    if line[0] != '#': # Get rid of comment lines
        x = eval(line)
        dicAnsMorph[x[0][1]] = x[1][1] # recid is key, parse dict is
value

But it crashes every time on x = eval(line). Why is this? If I change
a.txt to:

# comments
[('recId', 3), ('parse', {'pos': u'np', 'gen': u'm'})]

it works fine. Why doesn't it work with multiple lines? it's driving me
crazy!

Thanks,
Matthew