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@@ -261,8 +261,8 @@ experience of years.
{'password': 'PapayaWhip', 'user': 'pilgrim', 'database': 'master'}
-- The
split() string method takes one argument, a delimiter, and splits a string into a list of strings based on the delimiter. Here, the delimiter is an ampersand character, but it could be anything.
- - Now we have a list of strings, each with a key, followed by an equals sign, followed by a value. We can use a list comprehension to iterate over the entire list and split each string into two strings based on the first equals sign. (In theory, a value could contain an equals sign too. If we just used
'key=value=foo'.split('='), we would end up with a three-item list ['key', 'value', 'foo'].)
+ - The
split() string method has one required argument, a delimiter. The method splits a string into a list of strings based on the delimiter. Here, the delimiter is an ampersand character, but it could be anything.
+ - Now we have a list of strings, each with a key, followed by an equals sign, followed by a value. We can use a list comprehension to iterate over the entire list and split each string into two strings based on the first equals sign. The optional second argument to the
split() method is the number of times you want to split. 1 means “only split once,” so the split() method will return a two-item list. (In theory, a value could contain an equals sign too. If you just used 'key=value=foo'.split('='), you would end up with a three-item list ['key', 'value', 'foo'].)
- Finally, Python can turn that list-of-lists into a dictionary simply by passing it to the
dict() function.