converting tuple to list

[Fredrik Lundh]

Adrian Eyre <a.eyre at optichrome.com> wrote:
> Just out of interest: what is the canonical way of converting a list
> of tuples to a dictionary? i.e. the opposite of dict.items()
> 
> [("key1","value1"),("key2","value2")] -> {"key1":"value1","key2":"value2"}

I doubt you can do much better than:

mydict = {}
for k, v in mylist:
    mydict[k] = v

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