Python - converting textfile contents into diction

Question

Let's say I have a text file with the following:

line = "this is line 1"
line2 = "this is the second line"
line3 = "here is another line"
line4 = "yet another line!"

And I want to quickly convert these into dictionary keys/values with " line* " being the key and the text in quotes as the value while also removing the equals sign.

What would be the best way to do this in Python?

Answer 1

In one line:

d = dict((line.strip().split(' = ') for line in file(filename)))

Answer 2

f = open(filepath, 'r')
answer = {}
for line in f:
    k, v = line.strip().split('=')
    answer[k.strip()] = v.strip()

f.close()

Hope this helps

Answer 3

Here's what the urlopen version of inspectorG4dget's answer might look like:

from urllib.request import urlopen
url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sedeh/github.io/master/resources/states.txt'
response = urlopen(url)
lines = response.readlines()
state_names_dict = {}
for line in lines:
    state_code, state_name = line.decode().split(":")
    state_names_dict[state_code.strip()] = state_name.strip()