"Robert Kern" wrote:
> Ignore the last message.
>
> translations = [x.strip(" '") for x in line.split('|')]
> d = dict(zip(translations[::2], translations[1::2]))
Or in case you're working with a lot and/or huge records, the second
line can be more efficiently written as:
from itertools import izip, islice
d = dict(izip(islice(translations,0,None,2),
islice(translations,1,None,2)))
George
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