[Baypiggies] python newbie

[Anna Ravenscroft]

On 3/6/06, Jerome Jabson <jjabson at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I'm having problems trying to parse a text file and
> separating it's contents into a dictionary. The file
> as something like:
>
> name
> This is the description of the name.
>
> another_name
> Another description of this name.
>
> The dictionary should look like:
>
> dict = {name: This is the description of the name.,
> another_name: Another discription of this name}
>
> I tried doing something like:
>
> dict = {}


don't ever use builtin names for variable names. It'll bite you.
mydict = {}


f = open("text-file", "r)
> for line in f:
>    items = line
>     dict[items[0]] = items[1:]
> print dict




but the dictionary comes out all wrong! :-(



Describe "all wrong"? From your code above, I suspect you get the first
letter of the name as the key, rather than the whole name. You need to split
the line into separate words then rejoin them with ' '.join() for the value.


Can
> someone give me some pointers on how to do this.



f = open("namer.txt", "r")

mydict = {}

for line in f:
   l = line.split()
   mydict[l[0]] = ' '.join(l[1:])

print mydict


HTH
Anna
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