Creating a dictionary with list of lists in Python
- by ghbhatt
I have a huge file (with around 200k inputs). The inputs are in the form:
A B C D
B E F
C A B D
D
I am reading this file and storing it in a list as follows:
text = f.read().split('\n')
This splits the file whenever it sees a new line. Hence text is like follows:
[[A B C D] [B E F] [C A B D] [D]]
I have to now store these values in a dictionary where the key values are the first element from each list. i.e the keys will be A, B, C, D.
I am finding it difficult to enter the values as the remaining elements of the list. i.e the dictionary should look like:
{A: B C D; B: E F; C: A B D; D: 0}
I have done the following:
inlinkDict = {}
for doc in text:
adoc= doc.split(' ')
docid = adoc[0]
inlinkDict[docid] = inlinkDict.get(docid,0) + {I do not understand what to put in here}
Please help as to how should i add the values to my dictionary. It should be 0 if there are no elements in the list except for the one which will be the key value. Like in example for 0.
