I have a text file with dictionary representations. These are opened into python as strings and I want to convert them to dicts using ast.literal_eval
I found the following thread which helped get me so far. Python: error parsing strings from text file with Ast module
I am wondering if the source string is invalid as mentioned in this thread but I don't know how to check this. ast.literal_eval: SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing
data in output file
{'name': 'John', 'age': '21'}
{'name': 'Mary', 'age': '23'}
code
from ast import literal_eval
output_file = 'profiles.txt'
try:
with open(output_file) as f:
for entry in f:
entry_dict = literal_eval(entry)
print(entry_dict)
except Exception as e:
print(e)
My desired result is to have the strings as class 'dict' which actually works but is followed by the following stack trace
<class 'dict'>
<class 'dict'>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "write_site_to_netbox.py", line 25, in <module>
site_dict = literal_eval(site_entry)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/ast.py", line 48, in literal_eval
node_or_string = parse(node_or_string, mode='eval')
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/ast.py", line 35, in parse
return compile(source, filename, mode, PyCF_ONLY_AST)
File "<unknown>", line 1
^
SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing
