将电影标题和组导演的文本文件一起读入字典

Question

I need to create a dictionary with the movie titles and directors below. It will open a txt file and populate the dictionary with the input below. The input file of the dictionary is below. How could I create this using just d {} for dictionary. I have read about split() but am still confused about delimiters.

'Breaker' Morant (1980)/Brown, Bryan (I)/Henderson, Dick (II)/Gray, Patrika/French, Leigh
'Crocodile' Dundee II (1988)/Jbara, Gregory/Holt, Rita/Forbes, Angelyn

It seems that you know there is a movie (key) when there is a ' title ' and the names are delimited by /Last , First/Last , First . I also seems as if the end of the movie directors is when a \\n appears.

The Expected outcome would :

{"'Breaker' Morant (1980)": { 'Brown, Bryan (I)', 'Henderson, Dick (II)', 'Gray, Patrika', 'French, Leigh'}, 
 "'Crocodile' Dundee II (1988)": {'Jbara, Gregory', 'Holt, Rita', 'Forbes, Angelyn'}

Answer 1

.split('delimiter') converts a string into a list with the elements separated by the provided delimiter.

For example:

mystr = "oen/two/three"
mylst = mystr.split('/') #the delimiter is '/'

Here, mylst will be: ['one', 'two', 'three']

So if you want to create a dictionary as per your requirements, you can first create a list and then go for the dictionary by slicing the list.

movieInfo = "Crocodile Dundee II (1988)/Jbara, Gregory/Holt, Rita/Forbes, Angelyn"
myDict = {}
movieList = movieInfo.split('/')

myDict[movieList[0]] = movieList[1:]

At the end you will get the myDict as {'Crocodile Dundee II (1988)': ['Jbara, Gregory', 'Holt, Rita', 'Forbes, Angelyn']}