How to convert comma-separated key value pairs into a dictionary using lambda functions

Question

I'm having a little problem figuring out lamba functions. Could someone show me how to split the following string into a dictionary using lambda functions?

fname:John,lname:doe,mname:dunno,city:Florida

Thanks

Solution 1

There is not really a need for a lambda here.

s = "fname:John,lname:doe,mname:dunno,city:Florida"
sd = dict(u.split(":") for u in s.split(","))

Solution 2

You don't need lambda functions to do this:

>>> s = "fname:John,lname:doe,mname:dunno,city:Florida"
>>> dict(item.split(":") for item in s.split(","))
{'lname': 'doe', 'mname': 'dunno', 'fname': 'John', 'city': 'Florida'}

But you can if you really want to:

>>> dict(map(lambda x: x.split(":"), s.split(",")))
{'lname': 'doe', 'mname': 'dunno', 'fname': 'John', 'city': 'Florida'}

Comments

[Il-Bhima]

You beat me to it with exactly the same code. :-) Deleting mine.