exercise for dicts

__author__ = 'Zaineb Chouhdry'
file = open("rawdata.txt", mode="r", encoding="utf8")

countryIncomes = dict()
countrySets = dict()

ascii_uppercase = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'

for letter in ascii_uppercase:
    countrySets[letter] = []

for line in file:
    info = line.split(":")
    index = info[0]
    country = info[1].replace("\n", "")
    income = info[2].replace("\n", "")

    countryIncomes[country.upper()] = income

    firstLetter = country.upper()[0]
    countrySets[firstLetter].append(country.upper())

while True:
    user_input = input("Enter an initial or a country name: ").upper()

    if user_input == "QUIT":
        break

    if len(user_input) == 1: #initial
        print(countrySets[user_input])
    elif len(user_input) > 1: #possibly country name
        if user_input in countryIncomes:
            print(countryIncomes[user_input])
        else:
            print("Does not exist")