[Tutor] Building dictionary from large txt file
Roel Schroeven
roel at roelschroeven.net
Wed Jul 27 03:39:04 EDT 2022
Op 27/07/2022 om 5:11 schreef Dennis Lee Bieber:
> [...]
> I'd probably run a loop inside the open/close section, collecting the
> items for ONE entry. I presume "Atomic Number" starts each entry. Then,
> when the next "Atomic Number" line is reached you process the collected
> lines to make your dictionary entry.
I'd probably do something like that too. But don't forget to also
process the collected lines at the end of the file! After the last entry
there is no "Atomic Number" line anymore, so it's easy to inadvertently
skip that last entry (speaking from experience here... ).
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