Cleaner idiom for text processing?

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Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> wrote in message news:<c91got$vpi$00$1 at news.t-online.com>...
> Yet another way to create the dictionary:
> 
> >>> import itertools
> >>> nv = iter("foo 1 bar 2 baz 3\n".split())
> >>> dict(itertools.izip(nv, nv))
>  {'baz': '3', 'foo': '1', 'bar': '2'}
> >>>
> 
> Peter

Cool! This should go in the Cookbook, in the shortcuts section.

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