manstey schreef:
> Hi,
>
> I have a text file called a.txt:
>
> # comments
> [('recId', 3), ('parse', {'pos': u'np', 'gen': u'm'})]
> [('recId', 5), ('parse', {'pos': u'np', 'gen': u'm'})]
> [('recId', 7 ), ('parse', {'pos': u'np', 'gen': u'm'})]
>
> I read it using this:
>
> filAnsMorph = codecs.open('a.txt', 'r', 'utf-8') # Initialise input
> file
> dicAnsMorph = {}
> for line in filAnsMorph:
> if line[0] != '#': # Get rid of comment lines
> x = eval(line)
> dicAnsMorph[x[0][1]] = x[1][1] # recid is key, parse dict is
> value
>
> But it crashes every time on x = eval(line). Why is this? If I change
> a.txt to:
>
> # comments
> [('recId', 3), ('parse', {'pos': u'np', 'gen': u'm'})]
>
> it works fine. Why doesn't it work with multiple lines? it's driving me
> crazy!
It looks like it's because of the trailing newline. When you read a file
like that, the newline at the end of each line is still in line. You can
strip it e.g. with rstrip, like so:
x = eval(line.rstrip('\n'))
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