Dictionary text file Python - python-3.x

Question

text
Donald Trump:
791697302519947264,1477604720,Ohio USA,Twitter for iPhone,5251,1895
Join me live in Springfield, Ohio!
Lit
<<<EOT
781619038699094016,1475201875,United States,Twitter for iPhone,31968,17246
While Hillary profits off the rigged system, I am fighting for you! Remember the simple phrase: #FollowTheMoney...
<<<EOT
def read(text):
with open(text,'r') as f:
for line in f:
Is there a way that i can separate each information for the candidates So for example for Donald Trump it should be
[
[Donald Trump],
[791697302519947264[[791697302519947264,1477604720,'Ohio USA','Twitter for iPhone',5251,18951895], 'Join['Join me live in Springfield, Ohio! Lit']Lit']],
[781619038699094016[[781619038699094016,1475201875,'United States','Twitter for iPhone',31968,1724617246], 'While['While Hillary profits off the rigged system, I am fighting for you! Remember the simple phrase: #FollowTheMoney...']']]
]
The format of the file is the following:
ID,DATE,LOCATION,SOURCE,FAVORITE_COUNT,RETWEET_COUNT text(the tweet)
So basically after the 6 headings, everything after that is a tweet till '<<
Also is there a way i can do this for every candidate in the file

Answer 1

I'm not sure why you need a multi-dimensional list (I would pick tuples and dictionaries if possible) but this seems to produce the output you asked for:
>>> txt = """Donald Trump:
... 791697302519947264,1477604720,Ohio USA,Twitter for iPhone,5251,1895
... Join me live in Springfield, Ohio!
... Lit
... <<<EOT
... 781619038699094016,1475201875,United States,Twitter for iPhone,31968,17246
... While Hillary profits off the rigged system, I am fighting for you! Remember the simple phrase: #FollowTheMoney...
... <<<EOT
... Another Candidate Name:
... 12312321,123123213,New York USA, Twitter for iPhone,123,123
... This is the tweet text!
... <<<EOT"""
>>>
>>>
>>> buffer = []
>>> tweets = []
>>>
>>> for line in txt.split("\n"):
... if not line.startswith("<<<EOT"):
... buffer.append(line)
... else:
... if buffer[0].strip().endswith(":"):
... tweets.append([buffer.pop(0).rstrip().replace(":", "")])
... metadata = buffer.pop(0).split(",")
... tweet = [" ".join(line for line in buffer).replace("\n", " ")]
... tweets.append([metadata, tweet])
... buffer = []
...
>>>
>>> from pprint import pprint
>>>
>>> pprint(tweets)
[['Donald Trump'],
[['791697302519947264',
'1477604720',
'Ohio USA',
'Twitter for iPhone',
'5251',
'1895'],
['Join me live in Springfield, Ohio! Lit']],
[['781619038699094016',
'1475201875',
'United States',
'Twitter for iPhone',
'31968',
'17246'],
['While Hillary profits off the rigged system, I am fighting for you! Remember the simple phrase: #FollowTheMoney... ']],
['Another Candidate Name'],
[['12312321',
'123123213',
'New York USA',
' Twitter for iPhone',
'123',
'123'],
['This is the tweet text!']]]
>>>

Answer 2

I am not quite understanding... but here is my example to read a file line by line then add that line to a string of text to post to twitter.
candidates = open("FILEPATH WITH DOUBLE \") #example "C:\\users\\fox\\desktop\\candidates.txt"
for candidate in candidates():
candidate = candidate.rstrip('\n') #removes new line(this is mandatory)
#next line post means post to twitter
post("propaganda here " + candidate + "more propaganda)
note for every line in that file this code will post to twitter
ex.. 20 lines means twenty twitter posts