Python converting a text file into a json object

Question

I am not new to programming, but I am very new to python. I don't yet completely understand Python's data structures. Below is my problem.

Given a txt file containing the text:

FEB 5

ACTION COMICS #28

BATWING #28

CAPTAIN AMERICA #16

...

FEB 12

ABE SAPIEN #10

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN MOVIE ADAPT #2

BATMAN #28

...

I want to create a JSON object that looks like:

{"ACTION COMIC #28":"FEB 5", "BATWING #28":"FEB 5", "CAPTAIN AMERICA #16":"FEB 5", "ABE SAPIEN #10":"FEB 12", "AMAZING SPIDER-MAN MOVIE ADAPT #2":"FEB 12", "BATMAN #28":"FEB 12"}

So far I have gotten to the point where I have two equal length lists that each contain the corresponding comic book titles and dates. For example, say I have the two lists below:

comic_book_titles = ["ACTION COMICS #28", "BATWING #28", "CAPTAIN AMERICA #16", "ABE SAPIEN #10", "AMAZING SPIDER-MAN MOVIE ADAPT #2", "BATMAN #28"]
dates = ["FEB 5", "FEB 5", "FEB 5", "FEB 12", "FEB 12", "FEB 12"]

How do I get the JSON object described above? Note, that I can't just enter in:

import json
data = [{"ACTION COMIC #28":"FEB 5", "BATWING #28":"FEB 5", "CAPTAIN AMERICA #16":"FEB 5", "ABE SAPIEN #10":"FEB 12", "AMAZING SPIDER-MAN MOVIE ADAPT #2":"FEB 12", "BATMAN #28":"FEB 12"}]
json.dump(data)

Because I am getting the data from a text file.

Thiago Curvelo · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-01 00:35:57Z

6

import json
data = dict(zip(comic_book_titles, dates))
json.dumps(data)

More info about zip()

edited Jun 1, 2016 at 0:35

answered Feb 11, 2014 at 0:27

Thiago Curvelo

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