Python - converting textfile contents into dictionary values/keys easily

Question

Let\'s say I have a text file with the following:

line = \"this is line 1\"
line2 = \"this is the second line\"
line3 = \"here is another line\"
line4 = \"ye         


        

Answer 1

Here's what the urlopen version of inspectorG4dget's answer might look like:

from urllib.request import urlopen
url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sedeh/github.io/master/resources/states.txt'
response = urlopen(url)
lines = response.readlines()
state_names_dict = {}
for line in lines:
    state_code, state_name = line.decode().split(":")
    state_names_dict[state_code.strip()] = state_name.strip()