text file to empty dictionary

Question

dictionary = {}
file = 'lightning.txt'
with open(file) as d:
    for line in d:
        pa = line.split()
        dictionary[pa[0]] = pa[1:]

print(dictionary)

I have a text file that shows lightning players and their goals and assists, it is set up like this:

Stamkos
46
50
Hedman
30
50
Point
40
50

All on separate lines, I am trying to write a program that sends this text file to a dictionary although my output is not displaying how I want it. the dictionary is coming out as {'Stamkos': [], '46': [], '50': [], I am trying to get rid of the empty lists and just have the name as the key and the goals and assists as the values but nothing is working.

Answer 1

The problem is that the values are in different lines. Use next to fetch the other ones:

dictionary = {}
file = 'lightning.txt'
with open(file) as d:
    for line in d:
        dictionary[line.strip()] = [next(d).strip(), next(d).strip()]

print(dictionary)

Output

{'Stamkos': ['46', '50'], 'Hedman': ['30', '50'], 'Point': ['40', '50']}

Answer 2

you can use zip to read 3 lines at a time into 3 separate variables:

players = dict()
with open("lightning.txt","r") as f:
    for name,goals,assists in zip(f,f,f):
        players[name.strip()] = [int(goals),int(assists)]

print(players)
{'Stamkos': [46, 50], 'Hedman': [30, 50], 'Point': [40, 50]}

Or in a dictionary comprehension:

with open("lightning.txt","r") as f:
    players = {name.strip():[*map(int,stats)] for name,*stats in zip(f,f,f)}

Or a (cryptic) mapping of zips:

with open("lightning.txt","r") as f:
    players = dict(zip(map(str.strip,f),zip(*[map(int,f)]*2)))

You could also structure your data as nested dictionaries:

players = dict()
with open("lightning.txt","r") as f:
    for name,goals,assists in zip(f,f,f):
        players[name.strip()] = {"goals":int(goals),"assists":int(assists)}

print(players)
{'Stamkos': {'goals': 46, 'assists': 50}, 
 'Hedman': {'goals': 30, 'assists': 50}, 
 'Point': {'goals': 40, 'assists': 50}}

Answer 3

Another way that also converts the numbers to ints:

file = 'lightning.txt'
with open(file) as d:
    names = map(str.strip, d)
    ints = map(int, d)
    dictionary = {name: [next(ints), next(ints)]
                  for name in names}

Result (Try it online!):

{'Stamkos': [46, 50], 'Hedman': [30, 50], 'Point': [40, 50]}