Jan Kaliszewski wrote: > 20-08-2009 o 02:05:57 Jan Kaliszewski <z...@chopin.edu.pl> wrote: > >> Or probably better: >> >> from itertools import islice, izip >> dict(izip(islice(li, 0, None, 2), islice(li, 1, None, 2))) > > Or similarly, perhaps more readable: > > iterator = iter(li) > dict((iterator.next(), iterator.next()) for i in xrange(len(li)/2))
I just can't stop posting this one: >>> from itertools import izip >>> it = iter([1,2,3,4,5,6]) >>> dict(izip(it, it)) {1: 2, 3: 4, 5: 6} I really tried, but yours drove me over the edge. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list