how to read .txt file with a special format (each line contains headers and content) by python

Question

I have a .txt file with a special format, namely, each line contains a header and content. Please see the following picture. I want to ask how I can import this file into Python via open or read_csv functions. enter image description here

Answer 1

Looks like your file is formatted as a JSON file. You can use Python's json module to handle JSON data as objects in Python using json.loads()

Here's a usage example, it may require some tweaking depending on how your JSON file is structured.

import json

with open("file.json", "r") as dataFile:
    jsonData = json.loads(dataFile.read())
for item in jsonData:
    print(item["id"])

This code was tested with the following JSON data:

[
    {
        "id": 1,
        "name": "Example 1"
    },
    {
        "id": 1,
        "name": "Example 2"
    }
]

You can read more about the json module here: https://docs.python.org/3/library/json.html