title: Python-Saving txt information to dictionary containing lists
body: <p>I’m new to python and I know you can save information to a dictionary in the format:</p>
  
  <pre><code>dictionary ={'Albany' : [ 201, 16.9, etc] }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I am trying to get information from a text file to go into that format. Does anyone know how I would do this? Sorry if I am being vague I can try to clarify for anyone if necessary.
  Here is part of the text file:</p>
  
  <p>36   1    39857    35436    44278 13.7 12.2 15.2     9271     7566    10976 16.1 13.1 19.1     6123     4832     7414 14.5 11.4 17.6  55778  53673  57883<br>
  Albany County                                 NY est13_NY.txt 05NOV2014</p>
  
  <p>36   3     7296     5941     8651 16.7 13.6 19.8     2526     2043     3009 25.6 20.7 30.5     1707     1331     2083 23.5 18.3 28.7  41849  39467  44231<br>
  Allegany County                               NY est13_NY.txt 05NOV2014</p>
  
  <p>The first two lines are one line in the text file and what I have to do is compare certain statistics from the top line(child poverty data) and have my program state which county has the highest percent of poverty based on one of the pieces of data and other things based on other pieces of data in the txt file.</p>
  
  <p>For each county this is the data that I need:
  The data we care about for each county are:
  Position Variable</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>50- 57 Estimate of people age 0-17 in poverty</li>
  <li>77- 80 Estimated percent of people age 0-17 in poverty</li>
  <li>134-139 Estimate of median household income</li>
  <li>194-238 State or county name</li>
  <li>county name includes ' County'. To get rid of it use
  replace(' County','') after stripping trailing white space.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Also I cannot use any modules. 
  So far I opened the txt file and then did a for loop reading each line in the file and putting that into a dictionary, but i am not sure how to put it in the format I said above. </p>