I am trying to figure out a simple way to take lines from a text document and turning them into keys in a dictionary (values don't matter, can be arbitrary).

I was thinking something like:

wordList = open('word.txt', 'r', -1)
wordDict = {}

for line in wordList:
wordDict[line] = 0

but wordDict[line] looks for a integer index value right? What am I missing? I know it is a simple little syntax error. I have been looking on google, but haven't found a situation as simple as this.

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I am trying to figure out a simple way to take lines from a text document and turning them into keys in a dictionary (values don't matter, can be arbitrary).

I was thinking something like:

wordList = open('word.txt', 'r', -1)
wordDict = {}

for line in wordList:
    wordDict[line] = 0

but wordDict[line] looks for a integer index value right? What am I missing? I know it is a simple little syntax error. I have been looking on google, but haven't found a situation as simple as this.