def yourCityPopulation(filename): f1 = open(filename) city = dict() for cp in f1: x = cp.split(":") city.update({x[0]:x[1].strip()}) f1.close() c = input("Enter the city name:") n = 0 for key, value in city.items(): if c == key: print(key,value) n = 0 break else: n=1 if n!=0: print("City not exists") #Main program yourCityPopulation("City.txt")