Help with creating a dict from list and range

[George Sakkis]

"James Stroud" <jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu> wrote:

> Could be even simpler since enumerate creates tuples anyway:
>
> dct = dict(x for x in enumerate(description))
>
> James
>
> On Friday 14 October 2005 08:37, Steve Holden wrote:
> >  >>> dct = dict((x[1], x[0]) for x in enumerate(description))
> >  >>> dct
> >
> > {'second': 1, 'third': 2, 'first': 0}


"James Stroud" wrote

> Could be even simpler since enumerate creates tuples anyway:
>
> dct = dict(x for x in enumerate(description))
>
> James
>
> On Friday 14 October 2005 08:37, Steve Holden wrote:
> >  >>> dct = dict((x[1], x[0]) for x in enumerate(description))
> >  >>> dct
> >
> > {'second': 1, 'third': 2, 'first': 0}

Or even simplest :-)

dct = dict(enumerate(description))

George