Question

Suppose I have the following code:

new_dict = {}
text = "Yes: No Maybe: So"

I want to split the string up into 2 dictionary elements like so:

new_dict = {'Yes':'No', 'Maybe':'So'}

I tried to split the string up into a list in the same fashion to get a brief idea on how to do it, but I haven’t had much success.

Answer 1

text = "Yes: No Maybe: So"
words = [w.rstrip(':') for w in text.split()]
new_dict = dict(zip(words[::2], words[1::2]))