list/tuple to dict...

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Pierre Fortin wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 22:58:26 GMT Raymond wrote:
> 
>> [Pierre Fortin]
>> > > I'm just looking to make my code more readable and
>> > > self-documenting...
>>   . . .
>> > > osstat = todict(os.stat("%s" % path),
>> > >                 "mode,inode,dev,nlink,uid,gid,size,atime,mtime,ctim
>> > >                 e")
>> 
>> [Diez B. Roggisch]
>> > Use
>> >
>> > dict(zip(["mode,inode,dev,nlink,uid,gid,size,atime,mtime,ctime"],
>> > os.stat("%s" % path)))
> 
> What does zip() have to do with this situation...?

Uhm - its needed? 

It creates a list of pairs from the two argument lists, and dict() takes a
list of pairs of (key, value) to form a dictionary. 

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Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch