How to create a dictionary from a line of text?

Question

I have a generated file with thousands of lines like the following:

CODE,XXX,DATE,20101201,TIME,070400,CONDITION_CODES,LTXT,PRICE,999.0000,QUANTITY,100,TSN,151

Answer 1

import itertools

def grouper(n, iterable, fillvalue=None):
    "grouper(3, 'ABCDEFG', 'x') --> ABC DEF Gxx"
    args = [iter(iterable)] * n
    return itertools.izip_longest(fillvalue=fillvalue, *args)

record = dict(grouper(2, line.strip().split(","))

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