"Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita at gmail.com> writes: > If I want to create a dictionary from a list... > l = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 'a', 8, 'b'] dict(l[i:i+2] for i in xrange(0,len(l),2)) seems simplest to me.