list to map?

[Quinn Dunkan]

On 18 May 1999 18:18:03 -0400, Dan Schmidt <dfan at harmonixmusic.com> wrote:
>bruce.guenter at qcc.sk.ca (Bruce Guenter) writes:
>
>| Greetings.
>| 
>| I have a list of two-item tuples:
>| 	x=[(1,2),(3,4),(5,6)...]
>| Is there a built-in way to turn this into a map:
>| 	{1:2,3:4,5:6...}
>| I have done the obvious of looping over the tuples and adding them to a
>| map, but was wondering if there was a different way.
>
>OK, here's a different way.  Look, ma, no looping!
>

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c.l.py seems to be in a Tim-Petersly mood lately.  If what you meant was "is
there a faster way" take a look at mxTools.dict() at
http://starship.python.net/~lemburg/