Python :: Mapping a string to a dictionary

/** Today at work I had to find a neat way of mapping a string of parameters into a usable dictionary in Python.  Searching on the web didn’t reveal any results, so I had to get my hands dirty and figure it out for myself  */ {

The data provided is in the form of a string “option1=1 option2=2 option3=3″

The solution is quite neat and simple too…

value = “option1=1 option2=2 option3=3″

dict( map( lambda x: x.split(“=”), value.split()) ) )

Essentially this produces a list of lists which is then fed to the dict function as follows:

[['option1','1'],['option2','2'],['option3','3']]

Simple

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