Creating a function that opens a file and extracts data to make a dictionary

I have a text file containing this data and I need to make a function wherein this .txt file is opened, each line is read and then transferred into a python dictionary. This dictionary will have the first columns as keys and then the corresponding values would be both "Northings, Eastings".

Station Northings   Eastings  1   10001.00    10001.00  2   10070.09    10004.57  3   10105.80    10001.70    

So far this is the only thing I have and it has this error when the function is called AttributeError: 'builtin_function_or_method' object has no attribute 'split'. Sorry I'm quite new to this.

def parsefile(file_name):      station = []      norths = []      easts = []      dict_station = {}      with open(file_name) as fn:          for line in fn:              (stat,north,east) = line.split()              stat.append(stat)              norths.append(north)              easts.append(east)              dict_station[stat] = (north,east)              print(station, norths, easts)                    return dict_station  

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66791938/creating-a-function-that-opens-a-file-and-extracts-data-to-make-a-dictionary March 25, 2021 at 09:50AM