Question

Okay, the problem I have here is that I’ve got this .txt file Python imports into a dictionary.

What is does is it takes the values from the text files, that are in this Specific format:

a 0.01                   
b 0.11
c 1.11
d 0.02

^ (In code format because It wouldn’t wouldn’t stack it like in the .txt, not actually code)
and then puts them into a dictionary like this:

d = { ‘a’:’0.01′, ‘b’:’0.11, ect….}

Well, I’m using this so that it will change whatever value the user inputs (Later in the script) into whatever is defined inside the dictionary.

The problem is if I try and make it incorporate a space, it just doesn’t work.

Like, I finished the letters, and their corresponding values in the .txt and began going onto symbols:

For example:

& &
* * 

(so that when entered into the dictionary, the corresponding values are printed when I have it print the translated message) (I could change them up, but I decided to leave them as they are)

The problem arises when I try and have it make a space in the user input correspond to a space or another value in the translated message.

I tried leaving a row blank in my .txt, so that (space) is to (space)

But later, when it tried to load the .txt, it gave me an error, saying that: “need more than one value to unpack”

Can someone help me out?

EDIT: Adding code as requested.

TRvalues = {}
with open(r"C:\Users\Owatch\Documents\Python\Unisung Net Send\nsed.txt") as f:
    for line in f:
        (key, val) = line.split()
        TRvalues[key] = val
if TRvalues == False:
    print("\n\tError encountered while attempting to load the .txt file")
    print("\n\t The file does not contain any values")
else:
    print("Dictionary Loaded-")

Sample text file:

a 0.01
b 0.11
c 1.11
d 0.02
e 0.22
f 2.22
g 0.03
h 0.33
i 3.33
j 0.04
k 0.44
l 4.44
m 0.05
n 0.55
o 5.55
p 0.06
q 0.66
r 6.66
s 0.07
t 0.77
u 7.77
v 0.08
w 0.88
x 8.88
y 0.09
z 0.99

I get this error when I attempt to run the script:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/Owatch/Documents/Python/Unisung Net Send/Input Encryption 0.02.py", line 17, in <module>
    (key, val) = line.split()
ValueError: need more than 0 values to unpack

EDIT: Thanks for downvoting everybody! I’m now no longer able to ask questions.

Believe it or not I DO know the rules for this website, and DID research this before asking on Stack Overflow. It IS helpful for other people as well. What a nice community. Hopefully the people who answered did not downvote it. I appreciate what they did.

Answer 1

If I understand correctly, you’re trying to use a space both as an unquoted value and as a delimiter, which won’t work. I’d use the csv module and its quoting rules. For example (assuming you’re using Python 3 from your print functions):

import csv

with open('nsed.txt', newline='') as f:
    reader = csv.reader((line.strip() for line in f), delimiter=' ')
    TRvalues = dict(reader)

print(TRvalues)

with an input file of

a 0.01
b 0.11
c 1.11
d 0.02
" " " "

gives

{' ': ' ', 'a': '0.01', 'b': '0.11', 'c': '1.11', 'd': '0.02'}