Converting colon separated list into a dict?

Question

I wrote something like this to convert comma separated list to a dict.

def list_to_dict( rlist ) :
    rdict = {}
    i = len (rlist)
    while i:
        i          


        

Answer 1

You can do:

>>> li=['a:1', 'b:2', 'c:3']
>>> dict(e.split(':') for e in li)
{'a': '1', 'c': '3', 'b': '2'}