Convert nested list into a dictionary within a list

Question

I have a list of lists that I would like to convert into:

dict[i]['name']
dict[i]['stars']
dict[i]['numrevs']
dict[i]['price']

dict[0] tells me about the first column of data (Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken)

the inner lists are as follows:

1. restaurant name (name)
2. star rating (stars)
3. number of reviews (numrevs)
4. price (price)

bigList = [
    ['Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken', 'South City Kitchen - Midtown', 'Mary Mac’s Tea Room', 'Busy Bee Cafe', 'Richards’ Southern Fried', 'Greens & Gravy', 'Colonnade Restaurant', 'South City Kitchen Buckhead', 'Poor Calvin’s', 'Rock’s Chicken & Fries', 'Copeland’s'],
    ['4.0', '4.5', '4.0', '4.0', '4.0', '3.5', '4.0', '4.5', '4.5', '4.0', '3.5'],
    [549, 1777, 2241, 481, 108, 93, 350, 248, 1558, 67, 288],
    ['$$', '$$', '$$', '$$', '$$', '$$', '$$', '$$', '$$', '$', '$$']]

Any help would really be appreciated.

Answer 1

1. use zip to transpose your lists
2. call dict with the keys and the transposed list zipped together

then that becomes

keys = ["name","stars","numReviews","price"]
myDicts = [dict(zip(keys, row)) for row in zip(*bigList)]

this basically is just a list comprehension that does the following

dict([('name',"Some Name"),("stars", 5),("numReviews",50),("price","expensive")])

and will result in a list of the above dicts

[{"name":"Some Name",...},{"name":"Other name",...}, ...]