Regular expression help

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:04:29 -0400, Russell Blau wrote:

> values = {}
> for expression in line.split(" "):
>     if "=" in expression:
>         name, val = expression.split("=")
>         values[name] = val
> […]
>
> And when you get to be a really hard-core Pythonista, you could write
> the whole routine above in one line, but this seems clearer.  ;-)

I know it's a matter of taste but I think the one liner is still clear
(enough)::

  values = dict(s.split('=') for s in line.split() if '=' in s)

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch