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

Using slicing?

L = [1, "term1", 2, "term2", 3, "term3"]
L = zip(L[::2], L[1::2])

print L