a dictionary from a list

[Terry Hancock]

On Friday 24 June 2005 05:26 pm, infidel wrote:
> dict((x, None) for x in alist)

or if you want it to run in 2.3 (before "generator 
expressions"):

dict( [(x,None) for x in alist] )

Before the dict constructor, you needed to do this:

d={}
for key in alist:
    d[key]=None

which is still only 3 lines and will run
in Python 1.5, IIRC.

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