On 04/01/2011 05:33, Paul Rubin wrote: > "Octavian Rasnita"<orasnita at gmail.com> writes: >> If I want to create a dictionary from a list... >> l = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 'a', 8, 'b'] >> dict(l[i:i+2] for i in xrange(0,len(l),2)) >> seems simplest to me. Or: dict(zip(l[0 : : 2], l[1 : : 2]))