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Reading a File into a Dictionary And Keeping Count

I am trying to create a dictionary with two values: the first value is the text:

<NEW ARTICLE>
Take a look at 
what I found.
<NEW ARTICLE>
It looks like something
dark and shiny.
<NEW ARTICLE>
But how can something be dark
and shiny at the same time?
<NEW ARTICLE>
I have no idea.

and the second value is the count of how many times the word “ARTICLE>” is used.

I tried different methods and one method I received this error:

The erorr I receive is this:

(key, val) = line.split()
ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack

I’ve tried a few different methods but to no avail, one method I tried said it gave too many values to unpack..

I want to be able to search for a key/word in the dictionary later on and find its appropriate count.

Using Python 3.

Answer 1

this should do it:

>>> with open("data1.txt") as f:
...     lines=f.read()
...     spl=lines.split("<NEW ARTICLE>")[1:]
...     dic=dict((i,x.strip()) for i,x in enumerate(spl))
...     print dic
... 
{0: 'Take a look at \nwhat I found.',
 1: 'It looks like something\ndark and shiny.',
 2: 'But how can something be dark\nand shiny at the same time?',
 3: 'I have no idea.'}