[Tutor] Eek, help!

[Liam Clarke]

Hi all, 

I have belatedly come to use dictionaries, and I was having some
trouble with how to read/write them from a file,  so I looked at Alan
Gauld's section on it. I've pretty much copied his code straight
through, and, well, I've broken it somehow. In fact, it's hanging
Python, and it even hangs the debugger, which is a first, I must
admit.

The errant code as follows is - 

h={"Like":"two"}
filename = './dat/hshmd5.tbl'

store = file(filename,'w')

for name, entry in h.items():
    store.write(name + '\n')
    store.write(entry + '\n')

store.close()

print 'Wrote hash'
pause.anyKey()
print

book={}

store2 = file(filename,'r')

while store2:
    name = store2.readline().strip()
    entry = store2.readline().strip()
    book[name] = entry
    
store2.close()

It writes OK, it gets up to anyKey bit and... stops. Anything jump out
at anyone? I am confused.

Thanking you in advance,

Liam Clarke
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