Python: Creating a list of dicitionaries from lists in a text file. Please help!

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Python: Creating a list of dicitionaries from lists in a text file.

Please help! I'm not sure how to do it and repeat the process.

So far this is the code I have:

But I'm not sure how to repeat this process to create the new list of dictionaries.

For action-romance, I need a boolean response.

The text file I'm using is located here: http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=48953557772434487729

An example of what a dictionary should look like is this:

Thank you in advance for any help!

For example, from the dataset, the information of the first movie is: $ 1971 121 NR 001100 A dictionary below should be built for this movie: {"Title": "S", "Year": 1971, "Length": 121, "Rating": "NR", "Action": False, "Animation": False, "Comedy" True, "Drama": True, "Documentary" False, "Romance": False)

Explanation / Answer

movies_list = []

dict1 = {}

file_ref = open("movies.txt", 'r')

line = file_ref.readline() #to skip first line with title headings

for line in file_ref:

movie_data = line.split(" ") #split line on the basis of tab

# add the movie if line contains the proper data with all 5 values

# array index start from 0.

if len(movie_data) == 5:

dict1["title"] = movie_data[0]

dict1["year"] = movie_data[1]

dict1["length"] = movie_data[2]

dict1["rating"] = movie_data[3]

dict1["action"] = movie_data[4][0] == 1

dict1["animation"] = movie_data[4][1] == 1

dict1["comedy"] = movie_data[4][2] == 1

dict1["drama"] = movie_data[4][3] == 1

dict1["documentary"] = movie_data[4][4] == 1

dict1["romance"] = movie_data[4][5] == 1

movies_list.append(dict1)

file_ref.close()

print(movies_list)

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