[Tutor] ***SPAM*** List to dictionary

[Kent Johnson]

Bill Campbell wrote:
> The way I usually do this is something like:
> 
> outDict = dict(map(lambda x: (x, 1), inList))
> names = outDict.keys()
> names.sort()

This is a really old approach. Since Python 2.3 you can say
outDict = dict.fromkeys(inList)

or dict.fromkeys(inList, 1) if you cared about the value.

Since Python 2.4 you can use a set instead of a dict as shown in other 
replies.

Kent