How to convert a list to a list of tuples?

Question

I am newbie to Python and need to convert a list to dictionary. I know that we can convert a list of tuples to a dictionary.

This is the input list:

Answer 1

Try with the group clustering idiom:

zip(*[iter(L)]*2)

From https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html:

The left-to-right evaluation order of the iterables is guaranteed. This makes possible an idiom for clustering a data series into n-length groups using zip(*[iter(s)]*n).