Im having trouble with this code in python

Question

I have this code:

def create_dict(my_file):
    my_lines = my_file.readlines()   
    my_dict = {}

    for line in my_lines:
         items = line.split()
         key, values = items[0], items[2:3] + items[1:2] + items[5:6] +items[3:4] + items[4:5]
         my_dict[key] = values

    return my_dict

I need it to return

{
  'asmith': ['Smith', 'Alice', 'alice.smith@utsc.utoronto.ca', 31, 'F'], 
  'rford': ['Ford', 'Rob', 'robford@crackshack.com', 44, 'M'] 
 }

But its returning:

{
   'asmith': ['Smith', 'Alice', 'alice.smith@utsc.utoronto.ca', '31', 'F'], 

    'rford': ['Ford', 'Rob', 'robford@crackshack.com', '44', 'M']. 
 }

I need to change the age values into integers and i've tried using int(items[3:4]), but it says that the object has to be a string to be converted into an integer. Can anyone seem to find out why its doing this?

Answer 1

say your my_file has two lines like following:

asmith Smith Alice alice.smith@utsc.utoronto.ca  31 F       
rford Ford Rob robford@crackshack.com  44 M

and you can use this:

def create_dict(my_file):
    my_dict = {}
    with open(my_file, 'r') as f:  # close file without do it by yourself
        for line in f:  # it works even though the file has large size
            items = line.split()
            items[4] = int(items[4])  # convert age type from str to int
            my_dict[items[0]] = items[1:]
    return my_dict

test:

>>> create_dict('/home/mingxian/Desktop/pythontest/testfile')
{'rford': ['Ford', 'Rob', 'robford@crackshack.com', 44, 'M'], 'asmith': ['Smith', 'Alice', 'alice.smith@utsc.utoronto.ca', 31, 'F']}

Answer 2

Should be int(my_dict['asmith'][3])

items[3:4] returns a list which cannot be turned into an integer. items[3] appears to be the location of age.

Answer 3

try this

int("".join(items[3:4]))  

Answer 4

Try int(''.join(item)). Let me know if it works.