Creating a dictionary from a .txt file using Python -

if given .txt file contains these contents:

james doe 2/16/96 it210 bus222 b phy100 c john gates 4/17/95 it101 c math112 b chem123 butch thomas 1/28/95 cs100 c math115 c chem123 b 

how can takes class names , grades , puts them empty dictionary while ignoring rest? have code set read .txt file got stuck. suggestions?

this code opening file:

def readfile():     new_dict = {}     myfile = open('students.txt', 'r')     line in myfile: 

instead of making different variables each student, why not use list of dictionaries?

see code below :

>>> dictlist = [] >>> open('students.txt', 'r') f:         line in f:             elements = line.rstrip().split(" ")[3:]             dictlist.append(dict(zip(elements[::2], elements[1::2])))        >>> dictlist [{'it210': 'a', 'phy100': 'c', 'bus222': 'b'}, {'it101': 'c', 'math112': 'b', 'chem123': 'a'}, {'cs100': 'c', 'chem123': 'b', 'math115': 'c'}] 

if you're looking maintain order given in txt file in dictionary, ordereddict.