Dictionary from list?

[Martin von Loewis]

"Magnus Lie Hetland" <mlh at idi.ntnu.no> writes:

> > b) {(1,2) : (3,4)}
> >
> > Your answer is probably b), but many Python people would rather expect
> > a) (since it would be the reverse of the .items() operation).
> 
> Why would one want b?! (I must have missed some posts here...)

Because the original poster wanted that 

['k1','v1','k2','v2']

is converted to

{'k1':'v1', 'k2':'v2'}

Regards,
Martin