convert string to dict using list comprehension

Question

I have came across this problem a few times and can\'t seem to figure out a simple solution. Say I have a string

string = \"a=0 b=1 c=3\"

I wan

Answer 1

Do you mean this?

>>> dict( (n,int(v)) for n,v in (a.split('=') for a in string.split() ) )
{'a': 0, 'c': 3, 'b': 1}