mapping functions and lambda

[Suresh Jeevanandam]

I got it:
dict([k.split('=') for k in s.split(',')])

regards,
Suresh
Suresh Jeevanandam wrote:
> Given a string
> s = 'a=1,b=2'
> 
> I want to create a dictionary {'a': '1', 'b': '2'}
> 
> I did,
> 
> dict(map(lambda k: k.split('='), s.split(',')))
> 
> Is it possible to get rid of the lambda here, without having to define 
> another function just for this.
> 
> Is this the easiest/straight-forward way to do this?
> 
> regards,
> Suresh