list to map?

[Bruce Guenter]

Greetings.

I have a list of two-item tuples:
	x=[(1,2),(3,4),(5,6)...]
Is there a built-in way to turn this into a map:
	{1:2,3:4,5:6...}
I have done the obvious of looping over the tuples and adding them to a
map, but was wondering if there was a different way.
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