On Mär 28 2021, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Python is different: > >>>> y = ["a", "b", "c", "d"] >>>> dict(zip(y[::2], y[1::2])) > {'a': 'b', 'c': 'd'} >>>> x = ["a", "b", "c"] >>>> dict(zip(x[::2], x[1::2])) > {'a': 'b'} > > It seems to discard the last (unmatched) value.
>>> dict(zip_longest(x[::2], x[1::2])) {'a': 'b', 'c': None} Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."