I have a defaultdict
being written to file like this:
writer = csv.writer(open(locationToSaveFile, 'wb+'))
for k,v in dict.iteritems():
writer.writerow([k ,v])
I then have this horribly convoluted text to read it back in:
myDict = defaultdict(list)
with open(fileLocation, 'rb') as test:
reader = csv.DictReader(test, ['processedText', 'date'])
for line in reader:
myDict[line['processedText']].append(line['date'])
textDict = defaultdict(list)
for processedText, date in myDict.items():
actual_list = ast.literal_eval(date[0])
for a in actual_list:
textDict[processedText].append(a)
for processedText, date in textDict.items():
Obviously this looks very wasteful (and looks horrible!) but I don't know how else to import the defaultdict
.
When opening it with the reader =
and for line in reader
lines it creates a list within a list. The only way out of this is to use ast
to convert it.
Could somebody advise me how to tidy this up?
Note: I'm very unfamiliar with Python