Creating a dictionary from a .txt file

[C.T.]

On Sunday, March 31, 2013 12:06:18 PM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 2:52 AM, C.T.
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> > After playing around with the code, I came up with the following code to get everything into a list:
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> >
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> > d=[]
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> > car_file = open('worstcars.txt', 'r')
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> > for line in car_file:
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> >     d.append(line.strip('\n'))
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> > print (d)
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> > car_file.close()
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> >
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> > Every line is now an element in list d. The question I have now is how can I make a dictionary out of the list d with the car manufacturer as the key and a tuple containing the year and the model should be the key's value.
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> Ah, a nice straight-forward text parsing problem!
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> The question is how to recognize the manufacturer. Is it guaranteed to
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> be the second blank-delimited word, with the year being the first? If
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> so, you were almost there with .split().
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> car_file = open('worstcars.txt', 'r')
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> # You may want to consider the 'with' statement here - no need to close()
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> for line in car_file:
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>     temp = line.split(None, 2)
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>     if len(temp)==3:
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>         year, mfg, model = temp
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>         # Now do something with these three values
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>         print("Manufacturer: %s  Year: %s  Model: %s"%(mfg,year,model))
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> That's sorted out the parsing side of things. Do you know how to build
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> up the dictionary from there?
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> What happens if there are multiple entries in the file for the same
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> manufacturer? Do you need to handle that?
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> 
> ChrisA

Thank you, Chris! I could use slicing and indexing to build the dictionary but the problem is with the car manufacturer an the car model. Either or both could be multiple names.