Set to dict Python

Question

is there any pythonic way to convert a set into a dict?

I got the following set

s = {1,2,4,5,6}

and want the following dict

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Answer 1

Besides the method given by @Martijn Pieters, you can also use a dictionary comprehension like this:

s = {1,2,4,5,6}
d = {e:0 for e in s}

This method is slower than dict.fromkeys(), but it allows you to set the values in the dict to whatever you need, in case you don't always want it to be zero.

You can also use it to create lists, lists comprehensions are faster and more pythonic that the loop that you have in your question. You can learn more about comprehensions here: http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/datastructures.html#list-comprehensions