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On 5/23/2011 1:31 AM, Octavian Rasnita wrote:


> I am talking about a simple way of creating a hash/dict from an array,
> which is so simple that there should be really a single way to do it, or
> very few.

Again, Python has such:

 >>> dict([['one',1],['two', 2]])
{'two': 2, 'one': 1}

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy