Dictionary from list?

[Jim Correia]

In article <slrn9t0ilj.fub.sill at sill.silmarill.org>,
 Andrei Kulakov <sill at optonline.net> wrote:

> You know, this sort of thing comes up often - X is a built-in feature in
> perl, why do I have to do it manually in python? I think this is a
> justified design decision - there's simply too many built-in things perl
> does. You can't remember all of them and if you look at someone else's
> perl program you have to scratch your head a lot. Python is small, lean
> and clean, and that's one of the best things about it.

I wasn't insisting that there must be on in python, just asking if there 
was :-)