I have two text files, which are formatted like so:
foo,bar,etc
the other one is like this:
1,2,3
and I want to put these two text files into one dictionary for Python without having to do each one by hand. I want the output to connect the strings to the numbers. Is there any way of doing this?
Assuming you know how to read the data from the file and split the lines into list, and convert them to ints as necessary.
s1 = ['foo', 'bar', 'etc']
n1 = [1, 2, 3]
dict(zip(s1, n1))
yields:
{'bar': 2, 'etc': 3, 'foo': 1}
Notes:
zip() combines your lists:
zip(s1, n1)
[('foo', 1), ('bar', 2), ('etc', 3)]
In case you are not comfortable with creating lists from your lines data, for a given line using split() you can just do
line = line.split(',') #'foo,bar,etc' => ['foo','bar','etc'] / '1,2,3' => ['1','2','3']
and if you want to convert your numeric data to ints use list comprehension:
n1 = [int(n) for n in line] # ['1','2','3'] => [1, 2, 3]