Read Text File Into Dictionary Removing Heading/trailing Newlines

This will be much easier to understand if I just show you the text file I'm working with and the code I have. Here's the text file, called employees.txt: 7 John Doe 33 272838 M Mar

Solution 1:

Whereever you read using readline(), use readline().strip()

Solution 2:

.strip() without an argument strips all spaces/tabs/newlines