List of tuples to dictionary

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Here's how I'm currently converting a list of tuples to dictionary in Python:

l = [('a',1),('b',2)]
h = {}
[h.update({k:v}) for k,v in l]
> [None, None]
h
> {'a': 1, 'b': 2}

Is there a better way? It seems like there should be a one-liner to do this.

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5 Answers

It seems everyone here assumes the list of tuples have one to one mapping between key and values (e.g. it does not have duplicated keys for the dictionary). As this is the first question coming up searching on this topic, I post an answer for a more general case where we have to deal with duplicates:

mylist = [(a,1),(a,2),(b,3)]    
result = {}
for i in mylist:  
   result.setdefault(i[0],[]).append(i[1])
print(result)
>>> result = {a:[1,2], b:[3]}
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With dict comprehension: 

h = {k:v for k,v in l}
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Functional decision for @pegah answer:

from itertools import groupby

mylist = [('a', 1), ('b', 3), ('a', 2), ('b', 4)]
#mylist = iter([('a', 1), ('b', 3), ('a', 2), ('b', 4)])

result = { k : [*map(lambda v: v[1], values)]
    for k, values in groupby(sorted(mylist, key=lambda x: x[0]), lambda x: x[0])
    }

print(result)
# {'a': [1, 2], 'b': [3, 4]}
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