Hi pals I have a list like this
mylist=['','tom=boss','mike=manager','paul=employee','meaningless'] I'd like to remove the first and the last item as they are irrevalent, and convert it to the dict: {'tom':'boss','mike':'manager','paul':'employee'} I tried this but it didn't work: mydict={} for i in mylist[1:-1]: a=i.split('=') # this will disect each item of mylist into a 2-item list mydict[a[0]]=a[1] and I got this: File "srch", line 19, in <module> grab("a/tags1") File "srch", line 15, in grab mydict[mylist[0]]=mylist[1] IndexError: list index out of range Anyone could shed me a light on this? thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list