Reputation: 1
I have a text file with text formatted similar to the Dictionary format of python. I want to convert this text to list of Dictionary using Python. Please help. I am pasting the same text below. If anyone can help. Please mention the python code for converion.
{"x": 52.86634363112429, "y": 14.67862889415645, "width": 0.2638522427440633, "keypointlabels": ["left_eye"], "original_width": 433, "original_height": 217},
{"x": 56.91361729719117, "y": 15.412560338864274, "width": 0.2638522427440633, "keypointlabels": ["right_eye"], "original_width": 433, "original_height": 217},
{"x": 54.92677386112197, "y": 16.880423228279916, "width": 0.2638522427440633, "keypointlabels": ["nose"], "original_width": 433, "original_height": 217},
{"x": 53.52862477648069, "y": 20.256507873935902, "width": 0.2638522427440633, "keypointlabels": ["mouth_left_corner"], "original_width": 433, "original_height": 217},
{"x": 56.0305757700493, "y": 20.256507873935902, "width": 0.2638522427440633, "keypointlabels": ["mouth_right_corner"], "original_width": 433, "original_height": 217},
{"x": 54.70601347933652, "y": 23.045447363825627, "width": 0.2638522427440633, "keypointlabels": ["chin"], "original_width": 433, "original_height": 217},
{"x": 25.86605080831409, "y": 15.2073732718894, "width": 0.4618937644341801, "keypointlabels": ["left_eye"], "original_width": 433, "original_height": 217},
{"x": 29.099307159353348, "y": 13.824884792626728, "width": 0.4618937644341801, "keypointlabels": ["right_eye"], "original_width": 433, "original_height": 217}
Upvotes: 0
Views: 63
Reputation:
#an empty dictionary
dictionary = {}
with open("abc.txt") as file:
for line in file:
(key, value) = line.split()
dictionary[int(key)] = value
print ('\ntext file to dictionary=\n',dictionary)
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 146
This code may work based on your input.
import json
filename="jsonfile.txt"
with open(filename) as file:
lines = file.read()
list_of_dict=json.loads('['+lines+']')
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 1216
This looks like a list in JSON format without the preceding and trailing brackets. You could perhaps parse it by adding those in:
import json
def parse_object_list(value_str):
return json.loads("[" + value_str + "]")
Or if it's definitely a Python thing, you could use the ast.literal_eval
function, which should safely parse a Python literal:
import ast
def parse_object_list(value_str):
return ast.literal_eval("(" + value_str + ")")
In this example I have placed the value in parentheses so that python will read correctly-formed values as-is, and lines of comma-separated data like this as a tuple.
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 54223
Any time you're dealing with data formatted like python objects, you could use the ast
package to evaluate it. In this case, you want ast.literal_eval
import ast
with open('path/to/file.txt') as f:
result = []
for line in f:
result.append(ast.literal_eval(line.strip()))
Upvotes: 1