title: Python: Create Dictionary from Text/File that's in Dictionary Format
body: <p>I'd like to create a dictionary from a text file that I have, who's contents are in a 'dictionary' format. Here's a sample of what the file contains:</p>
  
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    <p>{'fawn': [1], 'sermersheim': [3], 'sonji': [2], 'scheuring': [2]}</p>
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  <p>It's exactly this except it contains 125,000 entries. I am able to read in the text file using read(), but it creates a variable of the literal text of the file even when I initialize the variable with </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>dict = {}</p>
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