Convert a list to a dictionary in Python

Question

Let\'s say I have a list a in Python whose entries conveniently map to a dictionary. Each even element represents the key to the dictionary, and the following o

Answer 1

Something i find pretty cool, which is that if your list is only 2 items long:

ls = ['a', 'b']
dict([ls])
>>> {'a':'b'}

Remember, dict accepts any iterable containing an iterable where each item in the iterable must itself be an iterable with exactly two objects.