Question

I have a file with lines like this:

no.3   normal   yes   54   0,543    12

And I should end up with ("normal", yes, 54, 0.543, 12) when I print info(no.3)

I have started by splitting up in lines. But now I’m not sure what to do?

As I can see, I need to use the first element as key, and the remaining as value.
But I’m not sure where to start?

Answer 1

mydict = {}
for line in myfile:
   items = line.split()          # split line on whitespace
   mydict[items[0]] = items[1:]  # first item: key, rest: values

Then you can do

print mydict["no.3"]

and get

['normal', 'yes', '54', '0,543', '12']