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import pandas as pd
import os

work_dir = "."
print os.getcwd()


/Users/jim/Desktop/Kaggle/BNPParibasCardif/src/sandbox

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parmdf = pd.read_csv(work_dir+'/py_parms.tsv',header=0,sep='\t')

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parmdf


Out[13]:
n.tree max.depth alpaha
0 1000 20 0.5

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parm_dict = parmdf.to_dict()
parm_dict


Out[14]:
{'alpaha': {0: 0.5}, 'max.depth': {0: 20}, 'n.tree': {0: 1000}}

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