list to map?

M.-A. Lemburg mal at lemburg.com
Wed May 19 03:54:44 EDT 1999


Bruce Guenter wrote:
> 
> 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.

There's the dict() built-in function in mxTools that does exactly
this:

	http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/mxTools.html

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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