I have a text file with this data
1, Jane Doe, 1991 2, Sam Smith, 1982 3, John Sung, 1965 4, Tony Tembo, 1977
I have something like this but it only works if you have the ID and name alone
names = {} with open("dict.txt") as f: for line in f: (key, val) = line.strip().split(',') names[int(key)] = val
print (d) Can I create a dictionary from this file that would look like this:
{1: [Jane Doe, 1991], 2: [Sam Smith, 1982]...}
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Answer
This is a bit more simple.
d = {} # this is the dictonary file = open("data.txt") # open file for line in file: s = line.split() # split line # get data individually key = s[0] fullname = s[1] + ' ' + s[2] year = s[3] # append to dictionary d[key] = [fullname, year] # print print(d)
hope this works