Python: Create Dictionary from Text/File that's in Dictionary Format

Question

I\'d like to create a dictionary from a text file that I have, who\'s contents are in a \'dictionary\' format. Here\'s a sample of what the file contains:

Answer 1

It's not a production ready solution and may not work well with a file of your size, but if you need a simple way and can prepend you file to

my_dict = {'fawn': [1], 'sermersheim': [3], 'sonji': [2], 'scheuring': [2]}

then you can rename it to a python file and simply import

from my_file import my_dict