On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:56:36 -0800, Louis.Soninhu wrote:
> 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?
The real list you used had at least one string without a '=' in it. The
list given above doesn't raise that exception:
In [102]: mylist=['','tom=boss','mike=manager','paul=employee','meaningless']
In [103]: mydict={}
In [104]: for i in mylist[1:-1]:
.....: a=i.split('=')
.....: mydict[a[0]]=a[1]
.....:
In [105]: mydict
Out[105]: {'mike': 'manager', 'paul': 'employee', 'tom': 'boss'}
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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