Question

I have some strings like 'english100' and 'math50'.
How can I convert them to a dictionary such as:

{'english': 100, 'math': 50}.

I have tried:

re.split(r'(?=\d)'

However, that does not work.

Answer 1

If your strings are that simple, I’d probably do something like this:

d = dict()
d.update(re.findall(r'([a-zA-Z]+)(\d+)',"english100"))

Or another way (if you have multiple occurrences in the same string):

>>> dict(x.groups() for x in re.finditer(r'([a-zA-Z]+)(\d+)',"english100spanish24"))
{'spanish': '24', 'english': '100'}