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 <li>Finally, Python can turn that list-of-lists into a dictionary simply by passing it to the <code>dict()</code> function.
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+<p>[FIXME - this is the first time we've seen a list comprehension. Add a forward or backward reference once we have a full section explaining them.]
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 <p><span class=u>&#x261E;</span>The previous example looks a lot like parsing query parameters in a <abbr>URL</abbr>, but real-life <abbr>URL</abbr> parsing is actually more complicated than this. If you&#8217;re dealing with <abbr>URL</abbr> query parameters, you&#8217;re better off using the <a href=http://docs.python.org/3.1/library/urllib.parse.html#urllib.parse.parse_qs><code>urllib.parse.parse_qs()</code></a> function, which handles some non-obvious edge cases.
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