On 3/31/2013 11:52 AM, C.T. wrote:
Hello,I'm currently working on a homework problem that requires me to create a dictionary from a .txt file that contains some of the worst cars ever made. The file looks something like this: 1958 MGA Twin Cam 1958 Zunndapp Janus 1961 Amphicar 1961 Corvair 1966 Peel Trident 1970 AMC Gremlin 1970 Triumph Stag 1971 Chrysler Imperial LeBaron Two-Door Hardtop The car manufacturer should be the key and a tuple containing the year and the model should be the key's value. I tried the following to just get the contents of the file into a list, but only the very last line in the txt file is shown as a list with three elements (ie, ['2004', 'Chevy', 'SSR']) when I print temp. d={} car_file = open('worstcars.txt', 'r') for line in car_file: temp = line.split()
If all makers are one word (Austen-Martin would be ok, and if the file is otherwise consistently year maker model words, then adding 'maxsplit=3' to the split call would be all the parsing you need.
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