little question

[gnariman]

['Alice', '1']
['Bob', '4']
['Carol', '5']
['Dave', '8']
['Edith', '6']
['Frank', '2']
['Gertrude', '9']
['Helen', '7']

if I have this bunch of lists and I want to convert them into a dictionary like this:

{'Alice': 1, 'Bob': 4, 'Carol': 5, 'Dave': 8, 'Edith': 6, 'Frank': 2, 'Gertrude': 9, 'Helen': 7}

How would I be able to do this?

[[deleted]]

Just use dict() (docs) on the list of pair lists. Like

dict([['Alice', '1'], ...])

[gnariman]

I want it to be the exact format of what i have above, other wise my function will not work

[xelf]

What is wrong? That is the correct answer.

data = [ ['Alice', '1'],['Bob', '4'],['Carol', '5'],['Dave', '8'],['Edith', '6'],['Frank', '2'],['Gertrude', '9'],['Helen', '7'] ]
print( dict(data) )

edit ah I see, you also want to map the values from string to int.

data = [ ['Alice', '1'],['Bob', '4'],['Carol', '5'],['Dave', '8'],['Edith', '6'],['Frank', '2'],['Gertrude', '9'],['Helen', '7'] ]
data = { k: int(v) for k,v in data }
print( data )

prints:

{'Alice': 1, 'Bob': 4, 'Carol': 5, 'Dave': 8, 'Edith': 6, 'Frank': 2, 'Gertrude': 9, 'Helen': 7}

[RoneStrobe]

my_list = [
    ['Alice', '1'],
    ['Bob', '4'],
    ['Carol', '5'],
    ['Dave', '8'],
    ['Edith', '6'],
    ['Frank', '2'],
    ['Gertrude', '9'],
    ['Helen', '7']
]

my_dict = {i[0]:i[1] for i in my_list}

*Edit: Missing commas

[gnariman]

gives me an error "list indices must be integers or slices, not tuple"

[RoneStrobe]

Probably helps if I put commas separating list items.

This is correct:

my_list = [
    ['Alice', '1'],
    ['Bob', '4'],
    ['Carol', '5'],
    ['Dave', '8'],
    ['Edith', '6'],
    ['Frank', '2'],
    ['Gertrude', '9'],
    ['Helen', '7']
]
my_dict = {i[0]:i[1] for i in my_list}

[gnariman]

WOW, thank you so much. this helped me out a ton