Turning a tuple of tuples into a dictionary

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So I've got tuples inside of tuples, and I would like to turn them into a key: value pair.

((1L, 'I.T.'), (2L, 'Project Management'), (3L, 'Creative'), (4L, 'Programming'), (5L, 'Sales'), (6L, 'Administration'), (7L, 'AV'), (8L, 'Human Resources'), (9L, 'Conference Rooms'), (10L, 'Testing'), (11L, 'none'))

How would I go about doing this?

possible duplicate of [Transform tuple to dict](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3553949/transform-tuple-to-dict) and [List of tuples to dictionary](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6522446/python-list-of-tuples-to-dictionary) — Felix Kling, Nov 01 '11 at 19:49

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 01 '11 at 19:42

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Just pass it to the dict constructor/function! It can take any iterable of (key, value) tuples and create a dictionary from it.

>>> x = ((1L, 'I.T.'), (2L, 'Project Management'), (3L, 'Creative'), (4L, 'Programming'), (5L, 'Sales'), (6L, 'Administration'), (7L, 'AV'), (8L, 'Human Resources'), (9L, 'Conference Rooms'), (10L, 'Testing'), (11L, 'none')
>>> dict(x)
{1L: 'I.T.', 2L: 'Project Management', 3L: 'Creative', 4L: 'Programming', 5L: 'Sales', 6L: 'Administration', 7L: 'AV', 8L: 'Human Resources', 9L: 'Conference Rooms', 10L: 'Testing', 11L: 'none'}

answered Nov 01 '11 at 19:42

Jeremy

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Is there anyway to make the first value (1L, etc) into a string? I can't tell what variable type it is. EDIT: Apparently it is a long integer. – Steven Matthews Nov 01 '11 at 19:59
It's a long integer, as you can tell by its suffix of `L`. – kindall Nov 01 '11 at 20:01
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@AndrewAlexander: Try `dict((str(key), val) for (key, val) in x)` – Jeremy Nov 01 '11 at 20:02

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 01 '11 at 19:42

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By calling dict with your tuple as an argument:

d = dict(t)

answered Nov 01 '11 at 19:42

Mark Byers

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