Thanks George! You guys are great! I am always learning. Python is awesome!!
On Friday, July 1, 2005, at 02:33 AM, George Sakkis wrote: > "Robert Kern" wrote: > >> Ignore the last message. >> >> translations = [x.strip(" '") for x in line.split('|')] >> d = dict(zip(translations[::2], translations[1::2])) > > Or in case you're working with a lot and/or huge records, the second > line can be more efficiently written as: > > from itertools import izip, islice > d = dict(izip(islice(translations,0,None,2), > islice(translations,1,None,2))) > > George > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list