How to convert list of string to dictionary in python

Question

I have a list of strings. I want to convert to dictionary. I got the output after scraping the data.

['Name:Dr. Mak', 'Location: India, Delhi']
['Name:Dr. Hus MD', 'Location:US, NY']

I want Output like below

{'Name':'Dr. Mak', 'Location': 'India, Delhi'}
{'Name':'Dr. Hus MD', 'Location':'US, NY'}

FHTMitchell · Accepted Answer · 2022-02-11T16:29:45.487

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dict(s.split(':', 1) for s in list_of_strings)

Edit: removing whitespace

dict(map(str.strip, s.split(':', 1)) for s in list_of_strings)

edited Feb 11 '22 at 16:29

answered Aug 20 '18 at 14:37

FHTMitchell

Thanks , its working – Aug 20 '18 at 14:44
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I think this good solution still lacks the str.strip() function applied to the values of the dict. I.e. sth like dict([s.split(':')[0], s.split(':')[1].strip()] for s in list_of_strings) – SpghttCd Aug 20 '18 at 14:46
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It will fail if there is more than one colon in `s`, so `s.split(':', 1)` is safer. – taras Aug 20 '18 at 14:48
@taras True, but I don't see why there would be a colon in a `country, city` schema – FHTMitchell Aug 20 '18 at 14:52
@FHTMitchell, well you never know:) Lets call it future-proof. – taras Aug 20 '18 at 14:54

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