Echo wrote: > Hello, > Here is what I am trying to do. I am trying to make a dict that has a > key that is the value an element in a list and the value for the dict to > be the index. > This is the closest I have been able to get: > dict((d[0],i) for d in self.cu.description for i in > xrange(len(self.cu.description)-1)) > > That however does not work. the value for all the dict is 40. Not 1, 2, > 3, ... that I was hoping for. > > Am I even close at creating the dict that I want? Is there a better way > to go about it? > >>> description = ["first", "second", "third"] >>> for x in enumerate(description): ... print x ... (0, 'first') (1, 'second') (2, 'third') >>> dct = dict((x[1], x[0]) for x in enumerate(description)) >>> dct {'second': 1, 'third': 2, 'first': 0}
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