Question

So i have this txt file called “Students.txt”, I want to define a function called load(student)
so i have this code:

def load(student):
      body

im not quite sure what to write for the body of code so that it reads the file and returns the value from the file as dictionary. I know it would be something like readlines()
anyway, the file students.txt looks like this:

P883, Michael Smith, 1991
L672, Jane Collins, 1992
(added)L322, Randy Green, 1992
H732, Justin Wood, 1995(added)
^key  ^name        ^year of birth 

the function has to return as a dictionary that looks like this:

{'P883': ('Michael Smith',1991),
'(key)':('name','year')}

I managed to return the values by trial and error however i cant make new lines and keep returning \n.

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this question has been answered and i used the following code which works perfectly however when there is a space in the values from the txt file.. (see added parts) it doesnt work anymore and gives an error saying that list index is out of range

Answer 1

Something like this should do it, I think:

students = {}

infile = open("students.txt")
for line in infile:
  line = line.strip()
  parts = [p.strip() for p in line.split(",")]
  students[parts[0]] = (parts[1], parts[2])

This might not be 100%, but should give you a starting-point. Error handling was omitted for brevity.