Convert python list to dictionary

Question

I\'m trying convert my list to dictionary in python. I have list l

l = [\'a\', \'b\', \'c\', \'d\']

and I want convert it to dictionary d

Answer 1

you should do this instead.

li = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']

my_d = {letter:[] for letter in li}

Answer 2

Use a dict comprehension:

d = {key: [] for key in l}

Answer 3

Keep it a bit simpler than that, you want to loop over your list, and then assign your iterator i (which will be each value in your list) as the key to each dictionary entry.

l = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']

d = {}
for i in l:
    d[i] = []


print(d) # {'a': [], 'c': [], 'b': [], 'd': []}

With the above understood, you can now actually simplify this in to one line as:

{k: [] for k in l}

The above is called a dictionary comprehension. You can read about it here