Convert list of strings to dictionary

Question

I have a list

[\'Tests run: 1\', \' Failures: 0\', \' Errors: 0\']

I would like to convert it to a dictionary as

{\'Tests r         


        

Answer 1

a = ['Tests run: 1', ' Failures: 0', ' Errors: 0']
b = dict([i.split(': ') for i in a])
final = dict((k, int(v)) for k, v in b.items())  # or iteritems instead of items in Python 2
print(final)

Result

{' Failures': 0, 'Tests run': 1, ' Errors': 0}