Converting a single ordered list in python to a dictionary, pythonically

Question

I can\'t seem to find an elegant way to start from t and result in s.

>>>t = [\'a\',2,\'b\',3,\'c\',4]
#magic
>>>print s
         


        

Answer 1

Not exactly efficient, but if you don't need it for very large lists:

dict(zip(t[::2], t[1::2]))

Or your version using a generator:

dict(t[i:i+2] for i in xrange(0, len(t), 2))