Map list onto dictionary

Question

Is there a way to map a list onto a dictionary? What I want to do is give it a function that will return the name of a key, and the value will be the original value. For example

Answer 1

Taking hints from other answers I achieved this using map operation. I am not sure if this exactly answers your question.

mylist = ["hello", "world"]
def convert_to_dict( somelist ):
    return dict( map( lambda x: (x[0], x), somelist ) )

final_ans = convert_to_dict( mylist ) 
print final_ans