Splitting string into dictionary

[Christopher Subich]

Robert Kern wrote:
> David Pratt wrote:
> 
>> I have string text with language text records that looks like this:
>>
>> 'en' | 'the brown cow' | 'fr' | 'la vache brun'

> translations = [x.strip(" '") for x in line.split('|')]
> d = dict(zip(translations[::2], translations[1::2]))

One caevat is that this assumes that the proto-list doesn't have any '|' 
inside the actual text.