Passing a dictionary or its keys as values to a function

Question

So I wrote a function that reads in a .csv file and creates a dictionary of abbreviations and their meaning. Now I'm looking to create a main function that calls the create dictionary function and then prompts the user for keys, but I'm not sure how to access the created dictionary.

import csv

def CreateDictionary(fileName):

    with open(fileName, 'r') as f:
        reader = csv.reader(f)
        newDict = {}
        for x, y in reader:
            newDict.setdefault(x, []).append(y)
        return newDict



def main():
    CreateDictionary('textToEnglish.csv')
    key = input("Please enter a text abbreviation")
    for key, value in newDict:

Answer 1

You need to assign the return value of the CreateDictionary function to some variable like this:

newDict=CreateDictionary('textToEnglish.csv')

this way you can access the items in the dictionary like this:

newDict["etc"]

Answer 2

You have to store the return value of CreateDictionary into a variable.

myDict = CreateDictionary('textToEnglish.csv')

By the way: You should rename the variable key because it will be overwritten in the for loop.