Splitting string into dictionary

[Robert Kern]

David Pratt wrote:
> I have string text with language text records that looks like this:
> 
> 'en' | 'the brown cow' | 'fr' | 'la vache brun'
> 
> Two or more language records can exist in each string (example above 
> shows 2 - but could contain more)
> The second vertical line character in the example above is the record 
> break in the pattern (between 'cow' and 'fr')
> 
> What is the shortest route to getting this into a dictionary like:
> 
> {'en':'the brown cow','fr':'la vache brun'}
> 
> The language code is always 2 lower case letters.
> 
> Many thanks.

translations = [x.strip(" '") for x in line.split('|')]
d = {}
for i in range(0, 2*len(translations), 2):
     d[translations[i]] = translations[i+1]

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