Automatically Writing a Dictionary

[tonylabarbara at aol.com]

Hi;
I have data in a file and I would like to write it to a dictionary, and then perform commands on it, something like this:


input = "/usr/local/machine-lang-trans/dictionary.txt"

input = open(input,'r')


dict = "{"
for line in input:
? tup = re.split(','line)
? dict += '"' + tup[0] +'":"' + tup[1] +'", '
dict += "}"
input.close()


Of course, that will just give me a string. How do I convert it to, or make from scratch, a dictionary of that?
TIA,
Tony

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