Python: how to build a dict from plain list of keys and values

Question

I have a list of values like:

[\"a\", 1, \"b\", 2, \"c\", 3]

and I would like to build such a dict from it:

{\"a\": 1, \"b\         


        

Answer 1

This seems rather succint, but I wouldn't call it very natural:

>>> l = ["a", 1, "b", 2, "c", 3]
>>> dict(zip(l[::2], l[1::2]))
{'a': 1, 'c': 3, 'b': 2}