List to dict conversion

[Emile van Sebille]

"Wujek" <wujek at wujek.com> wrote in message
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> Hi!
>
>  From list:
>  >>> l
> ['key1:val1', 'key2:val2']
>
> I want dict:
>  >>> d
> {'key2': 'val2', 'key1': 'val1'}
>

Guessing that this may have been read from a file, you may also be
interested in looking at ConfigParser.  From the module:

DESCRIPTION
    A setup file consists of sections, lead by a "[section]" header,
    and followed by "name: value" entries, with continuations and such in
    the style of RFC 822.

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Emile van Sebille
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