Dictionary use instead of dynamic variable names in Python

Question

I have a long text file having truck configurations. In each line some properties of a truck is listed as a string. Each property has its own fixed width space in the string, su

Answer 1

If the number of keys is more than 10,000, then this method is not viable. Otherwise define a dictionary d = {} and do a loop over your lines:

key = line[:4]
if not key in d.keys():
    d[key] = []
d[key] += [somevalue]

I hope this helps.