Question

For example, input1, input2 variables and key_loc is list of keys for the dictionary,

Input:

input1='sam,geti,1234'
input2='jhon,somwhre,676966'
key_loc =['name','addr','phone']

I’m expecting the output in the below format.

Output:

output={'recod1:{'name':'sam','addr':'geti','phone':'12343'},
            'record2':{'name':'jhon','addr':'somewhre','phone':'676966'}}

How can we do this in python?

Answer 1

I’ll assume that you have a file or file-like object input containing the input lines you posted. Then you can use this code to parse it into a dictionary like this:

output = {}
for line in input:
    key, values = line.strip().split('=', 1)
    data = values.split(',')
    output['record' + key[5:]] = dict(name=data[0], addr=data[1], phone=data[2])

However, if you don’t actually need the number from input1 etc., consider using a list as the top-level object:

output = []
for line in input:
    values = line.strip().split('=', 1)[1]
    data = values.split(',')
    output.append(dict(name=data[0], addr=data[1], phone=data[2]))