Cannot add new items into python dictionary

Hi I'm n开发者_开发技巧ew to python. I am trying to add different key value pairs to a dictionary depending on different if statements like the following:

def getContent(file)
    for line in file:

        content = {}

        if line.startswith(titlestart):
            line = line.replace(titlestart, "")
            line = line.replace("]]></title>", "")
            content["title"] = line

        elif line.startswith(linkstart):
            line = line.replace(linkstart, "")
            line = line.replace("]]>", "")
            content["link"] = line

        elif line.startswith(pubstart):
            line = line.replace(pubstart, "")
            line = line.replace("</pubdate>", "")
            content["pubdate"] = line

    return content

print getContent(list)

However, this always returns the empty dictionary {}.

I thought it was variable scope issue at first but that doesn't seem to be it. I feel like this is a very simple question but I'm not sure what to google to find the answer.

Any help would be appreciated.

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You reinitialize content for every line, move the initialization outside of the loop:

def getContent(file)

    content = {}

    for line in file:

etc.