Want to separate list of dictionaries not separated by comma

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I have a text file of dictionaries, these dictionaries are not separated by commas, is it possible to separate them and get nice elements in a list, with each element representing a dictionary.

E.g. : what I have: {} {} {}

What I want [{}, {}, {}]

Can someone please suggest the best way to do it.

Thanks

I request you to kindly post that as an answer it will be really helpful and easy to find for others looking for the same — Inder, Jun 05 '18 at 06:13
Yes that I am thinking, will be an issue, as I move to more complex structures — Inder, Jun 05 '18 at 16:30

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 05 '18 at 06:19

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This is easily done with sed(1). Assuming filename.txt is the name of file with dictionaries, the invocation is

sed -i 's/^/[/ ; s/$/]/ ; s/} {/}, {/g' filename.txt

answered Jun 05 '18 at 06:19

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is there way to use it in python script without using subprocess – Rachel Sep 03 '18 at 06:30

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 04 '18 at 10:50

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I am new to coding but I think instead of trying to convert a text to dictionaries, you can just change the data-structure to an associative array.

Not sure if it will help you but this is something that helped me under similar circumstances.

dictionaries style database in shell

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answered Jul 04 '18 at 10:47

Thanks but this is not what I wished to do, It was an automatic feed, sadly I can't change the data structure. – Inder Jul 04 '18 at 10:51

Want to separate list of dictionaries not separated by comma

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