How to transform string of space-separated key,value pairs of unique words into a dict

Question

I\'ve got a string with words that are separated by spaces (all words are unique, no duplicates). I turn this string into list:

s = \"#one cat #two dogs #th         


        

Answer 1

I believe you want following.

>>> a = '#one cat #two dogs #three birds'
>>> b = { x.strip().split(' ')[0] : x.strip().split(' ')[-1] for x in a.strip().split('#') if len(x) > 0 }
>>> b
{'three': 'birds', 'two': 'dogs', 'one': 'cat'}

Or even better

>>> b = [ y   for x in a.strip().split('#') for y in x.strip().split(' ') if len(x) > 0 ]
>>> c = { x: y for x,y  in zip(b[0::2],b[1::2]) }
>>> c
{'three': 'birds', 'two': 'dogs', 'one': 'cat'}
>>>