How to read txt file into a Dictionary?

Question

How can I read a text file containing

example:

qtsdatacenter.aws.edu 128.60.3.2 A

www.ibm.com 64.42.3.4 A

www.google.edu 8.7.45.2 A

Into a Dictionary like this:

 tsdictionary = {   "qtsdatacenter.aws.com" : "qtsdatacenter.aws.edu 128.60.3.2 A",     
                     "www.ibm.com" : "www.ibm.com 64.42.3.4 A",
                     "www.google.edu" : "www.google.edu 8.7.45.2 A"
                }

Where the first string read before a space also becomes the key.

can you share your solution where you showed effort to solve the problem, please? — rok, Feb 17 '20 at 22:20
The answer is here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4803999/how-to-convert-a-file-into-a-dictionary — drorhun, Feb 17 '20 at 22:22
sure, here rsdictionary = {} with open("PROJI-DNSRS.txt") as f: for line in f: (key, val) = line.split() rsdictionary[int(key)] = val — user586327, Feb 17 '20 at 22:23
This method is giving me this error ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 2) — user586327, Feb 17 '20 at 22:24
@user586327 this is because you have 3 elements and trying to unpack to 2 variables. You can do `key, *val = line.split()` to unpack all other elements into `val` — Tomerikoo, Feb 17 '20 at 22:56

jawad-khan · Answer 1 · 2020-02-17T23:03:17.750

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rsdictionary = {}
with open("PROJI-DNSRS.txt") as f:
    for line in f:
        (key, val) = line.strip().split(" ", 1)
        rsdictionary[key] = "{} {}".format(key, val)

edited Feb 17 '20 at 23:03

answered Feb 17 '20 at 22:28

jawad-khan

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 17 '20 at 22:29

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You can achieve something like this with the following:

my_dict = dict()

with open("data.txt") as data:
  for line in data:
    site , *_= line.strip().split(" ", 1)
    if site:
      my_dict[site] = line.strip()

print(my_dict)

answered Feb 17 '20 at 22:29

David Culbreth

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Thanks for sharing this. It works perfectly fine ! – user586327 Feb 17 '20 at 22:32
@user586327 If this satisfies your question, would you accept my answer as the solution? Thanks! – David Culbreth Feb 17 '20 at 23:33

How to read txt file into a Dictionary?

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