I want to know, if it's possible to save the output of this code into a dictionary (maybe it's also the wrong data-type). I'm not expirienced in coding yet, so I can't think of a way it could work.
I want to create a dicitionary that has the lines of the txt.-file in it alongside the value of the corresponding line. In the end, I want to create a code, where the user has the option to search for a word in the line through an input - the output should return the corresponding line. Has anyone a suggestion? Thanks in advance! Cheers!
filepath = 'myfile.txt'
with open(filepath) as fp:
line = fp.readline()
cnt = 1
while line:
print("Line {}: {}".format(cnt, line.strip()))
line = fp.readline()
cnt += 1
This should do it (using the code you provided as a framework, it only takes one extra line to store it in a dictionary):
my_dict={}
filepath = 'myfile.txt'
with open(filepath) as fp:
line = fp.readline()
cnt = 1
while line:
# print("Line {}: {}".format(cnt, line.strip()))
my_dict[str(line.strip())] = cnt
line = fp.readline()
cnt += 1
Then, you can prompt for user input like this:
usr_in = input('enter text to search: ')
print('That text is found at line(s) {}'.format(
[v for k,v in my_dict.items() if usr_in in k]))
For storing the line string value as key in dictionary and line number as value, you can try something like:
filepath = 'myfile.txt'
result_dict = {}
with open(filepath) as fp:
for line_num, line in enumerate(fp.readlines()):
result_dict[line.strip()] = line_num+1
Or, using dictionary comprehension
, above code can be:
filepath = 'myfile.txt'
with open(filepath) as fp:
result_dict = {line.strip(): line_num+1
for line_num, line in enumerate(fp.readlines())}
Now to search and return all the lines with words:
search_result = [{key: value} for key, value in result_dict.items()
if search_word in key]