python - What is the most efficient way to match keys from a dictionary to data in text file

Question

Say I have the following dictionary:

data=[a 1 : A, b 2 : B, c 3 : C, d 4 : D]

and a .txt file which reads:

Key      a 1  b 2  c 3  d 4
Word     as   box  cow  dig

(note values are seperated by TAB character)

How can I use the keys from the data dictionary to find the corresponding word from the .txt file? Ideally I would like to output a dictionary like:

data=[a 1 : as, b 2 : box, c 3 : cow, d 4 : dig]

Please ask for more info. if needed.

Thanks,

Alex

Answer 1

Something like this:

with open('abc') as f:
    keys = map(str.strip, next(f).split('Key      ')[1].split('  '))
    vals = map(str.strip, next(f).split('Word     ')[1].split('	'))
    print dict(zip(keys,vals))
...     
{'d 4': 'dig', 'b 2': 'box', 'a 1': 'as', 'c 3': 'cow'}