list 2 dict?

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Jan 2, 2011 4:15 PM, "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Octavian
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex Willmer" <alex at moreati.org.uk>
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> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 8:07 PM
> Subject: Re: list 2 dict?
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> > On Sunday, January 2, 2011 3:36:35 PM UTC, T wrote:
> >> The grouper-way looks nice, but I tried it and it didn't work:
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> >> from itertools import *
> >> ...
> >> d = dict(grouper(2, l))
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> >> NameError: name 'grouper' is not defined
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> >> I use Python 2.7. Should it work with this version?
> >
> > No. As Ian said grouper() is a receipe in the itertools documentation.
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> > http://docs.python.org/library/itertools.html#recipes
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> I know that, that is why I used:
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> from itertools import *
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> Isn't enough?
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> Octavian
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It would be, if, the function was actually a part of the itertools module.
It isn't. It's just a code example used in the documentation.
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