Can You Save Data To A Dictionary From A Text Document?

Question

I can't find any way to add data to dictionaries from text documents. Wait, is it even possible?

e.g.

with open("D:\Programming - Python\S.A.M.I\Words/Pos.txt", encoding="utf-8") as f:
posread=f.read()

(and then have this split each word using .split(,) to a dictionary)

What's the problem with any existing code? What's the input - what's the expected output... etc... — Jon Clements, Mar 26 '15 at 12:35
I needed to compare to lots of data to output the similar words in both. I tried using lists and tuples with no result and now I'm trying dictionaries. I have a file of words which I wish to split into a dictionary and then split the words of the users input into a dictionary. Then I will be able to run and see which (if any) words feature in both the text document and the users input. — SirBuncey, Mar 26 '15 at 12:37

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 26 '15 at 12:40

If your input in.txt is in the following format:

val1 val2
val3 val4

you can read it in the following way:

f = file("in.txt")
d = {}
while True:
    line = f.readline()
    if not line:
        break
    c0,c1 = line.split()
    d[c0] = c1

...and now you have the dictionary d.

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