Question

I have the following list:

['a:1', 'b:2', 'c:3', 'd:4']

I would like to convert to a ordered dict (using collections):

{'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3, 'd': 4}

I have seen solutions using regex here but I am not familiar with regex enough to roll a solution. Any thoughts on this?

Answer 1

d = collections.OrderedDict(el.split(':') for el in your_list)

Or, converting the values to integers:

OrderedDict( (k, int(v)) for k, v in (el.split(':') for el in your_list))