How can I convert a list of words into a dictionary?

Question

I have a txt file of hundreds of thousands of words. I need to get into some format (I think dictionary is the right thing?) where I can put into my script something along the lines of;

for i in word_list:
word_length = len(i)
print("Length of " + i + word_length, file=open("LengthOutput.txt", "a"))

Currently, the txt file of words is separated by each word being on a new line, if that helps. I've tried importing it to my python script with

From x import y

.... and similar, but it seems like it needs to be in some format to actually get imported? I've been looking around stackoverflow for a wile now and nothing seems to really cover this specifically but apologies if this is super-beginner stuff that I'm just really not understanding.

Answer 1

What you are trying to do is to read a file. An import statement is used when you want to, loosely speaking, use python code from another file.

The docs have a good introduction on reading and writing files -

To read a file, you first open the file, load the contents to memory and finally close the file.

f = open('my_wordfile.txt', 'r')
for line in f:
    print(len(line))
f.close()

A better way is to use the with statement and you can find more about that in the docs as well.