Color Dictionary
 

I have a color data file that gives the color name and its RGB values, for instance like this:

 

red RGB(255,0,0)

green RGB(0,128,0)

blue RGB(0,0,255)

brown RGB(165,42,42)

gold RGB(255,215,0)

maroon RGB(128,0,0)

I like to create a color dictionary from this file that looks like this:

 

{'red': (255,0,0), 'green': (0,128,0), 'blue': (0,0,255), ...}

How can I best do that?

Re: Color Dictionary
 

If the data are packaged as neatly as your file shows, then I would recommend using .split() and then eval() to convert the parenthesized string to a tuple:

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f = open("my_data")
colors = {}
for line in f:
line = line.strip('\n')
name, value = line.split(' RGB ')
colors[name] = eval(value) # converts string to tuple
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Jeff

Re: Color Dictionary
 

Jeff, thanks. I had to change the split separator from ' RGB ' to ' RGB' to make it work.