a dictionary from a list

[Benji York]

David Bear wrote:
> Assume I have a list object called 'alist'.
> 
> Is there an easy way to create a dictionary object with the members of
> 'alist' being the keys in the dictionary, and the value of the keys set to
> null?

You mean None, right?  :)

 >>> a_list = [1, 2, 3, 'a', 'b', 'c']
 >>> dict.fromkeys(a_list)
{'a': None, 1: None, 2: None, 3: None, 'c': None, 'b': None}
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Benji York