Python turn text file into dictionary

Question

I\'m writing a spell checking function and I have a text file that looks like this

teh the
cta cat
dgo dog
dya day
frmo from
memeber member

Th

Answer 1

You problably want to use split to get the words, then map the misspelled word to the correctly spelled one:

def spell():
  dictCorrect={}
  with open('autoCorrect.txt','r') as corrections:        
    for line in corrections:
      wrong, right = line.split(' ')
      dictCorrect[wrong] = right
  return dictCorrect

Answer 2

Use this:

with open('dictionary.txt') as f:
    d = dict(line.strip().split(None, 1) for line in f)

d is the dictionary.

disclaimer: This will work for the simple structure you have illustrated above, for more complex file structures you will need to do much more complex parsing.