Question

I’m currently reading values from file and spliting them as parameter and value e.g. @id=7 becomes param = @id, value = 7. I would like to use the param variable as a new key in the dictionary. However, it is not working as expected. I’m using the following code.

list1 = {}

with open('C:/Temp/file1.txt') as f:
    lines = f.read().splitlines()

for line in lines:
    middle = line.find("=")
    param = line[:middle]
    value = line[middle+1:]
    list1[param] = value

In this code, the dictionary key and value becomes 7.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If you are defining list1 as a dict list1 = {} then your print statement is incorrect.

print("param = " + list1[param] + ", value = " + value)

both list1[param] and value would be 7. since list1[param] would give you the value of it’s contents and not it’s key.

Try looking at the dictionary afterwards by printing it.

print(list1)