converting tuple to list

[Jim Richardson]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 15:14:59 +0100, 
 Fredrik Lundh, in the persona of <fredrik at pythonware.com>,
 brought forth the following words...:

>Adrian Eyre <a.eyre at optichrome.com> wrote:
>> Just out of interest: what is the canonical way of converting a list
>> of tuples to a dictionary? i.e. the opposite of dict.items()
>> 
>> [("key1","value1"),("key2","value2")] -> {"key1":"value1","key2":"value2"}
>
>I doubt you can do much better than:
>
>mydict = {}
>for k, v in mylist:
>    mydict[k] = v
>
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>

thankyuothankyou this solves a niggling problem I was having _so_
much more elegantly than I had thought of myself, new to python,
and loving every byte...

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