David Pratt wrote:
> I have string text with language text records that looks like this:
>
> 'en' | 'the brown cow' | 'fr' | 'la vache brun'
>
> Two or more language records can exist in each string (example above
> shows 2 - but could contain more)
> The second vertical line character in the example above is the record
> break in the pattern (between 'cow' and 'fr')
>
> What is the shortest route to getting this into a dictionary like:
>
> {'en':'the brown cow','fr':'la vache brun'}
>
> The language code is always 2 lower case letters.
>
> Many thanks.
Ignore the last message.
translations = [x.strip(" '") for x in line.split('|')]
d = dict(zip(translations[::2], translations[1::2]))
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