How to read dictionary from text file?

Question

Django

Hello, there is a text file with the following content:
{'country': 'Russia', 'city': 'Moscow'};
{'country': 'Turkey', 'city': 'Istanbul'};
etc.
This data must be read and written to the site database. Model with country and city fields. How to read such data format correctly?

Answer 1

This is not json, because json uses double quotes. You can read such data using the ast module :

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import ast


filename = 'file.txt'

# open file
with open(filename) as f:
    # read lines one by one
    for line in f:
        # remove semicolon and new line characters from the end of the line
        line = line.rstrip('\n;')
        # parse string
        data = ast.literal_eval(line)
        # print representation of the data
        print(repr(data))

Answer 2

JSON