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

naive solution assuming you have a clean dataset:

intconv = lambda x: (x[0], int(x[1]))

dict(intconv(i.split(': ')) for i in your_list)

This assumes that you do not have duplicates and you don't have other colons in there.

What happens is that you first split the strings into a tuple of two values. You do this here with a generator expression. You can pass this directly into the dict, since a dict knows how to handle an iterable yielding tuples of length 2.