On Feb 26, 11:00 am, mrstephengross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Let's say I've got a list of tuples, like so:
>
> ( ('a', '1'), ('b', '2'), ('c', '3')
>
> And I want to turn it into a dictionary in which the first value of
> each tuple is a key and the second value is a value, like so:
>
> { 'a' -> '1', 'b' -> '2', 'c' -> '3' }
>
> Is there a way to do this with a single line of code? Currently, I'm
> doing it like this:
>
> tuples = ( ('a', '1'), ('b', '2'), ('c', '3')
> d = {}
> for option,value in tuples: d[option] = value
>
> Thanks,
> --Steve
I'd hand-code it manually, by linking a C extension. Or
dict( iterable ).
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/built-in-funcs.html#l2h-21
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