bsneddon wrote: > This seemed to work for me if you are using 2.4 or greater and > like list comprehension. >>>> dict([ tuple(a.split("=")) for a in mylist[1:-1]]) > {'mike': 'manager', 'paul': 'employee', 'tom': 'boss'} > > should be faster than looping
That's what he's doing (well, a generator expression, not a listcomp). It's just split across multiple lines (ew). -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list