Converting List to Dict

Question

When I had a list that was in format of

list1 = [[James,24],[Ryan,21],[Tim,32]...etc] 

I could use

dic1 =dict(list1)

However now lets say I have multiple values such as

list1 = [[James,24,Canada,Blue,Tall],[Ryan,21,U.S.,Green,Short
[Tim,32,Mexico,Yellow,Average]...etc]

I have no idea how to go about creating a dict so that it would show the first name as the key and the following values as the value.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Loop through the entries of your list and add them to the dictionary:

for entry in list:
    dict[entry[0]]=entry[1:]

Answer 2

You can use a dict comprehension and slicing :

>>> list1 = [['James','24','Canada','Blue','Tall'],['Ryan','21','U.S.','Green','Short']]
>>> {i[0]:i[1:] for i in list1}
{'James': ['24', 'Canada', 'Blue', 'Tall'], 'Ryan': ['21', 'U.S.', 'Green', 'Short']}

In python 3 you can use a more elegant way with unpacking operation :

>>> {i:j for i,*j in list1}
{'James': ['24', 'Canada', 'Blue', 'Tall'], 'Ryan': ['21', 'U.S.', 'Green', 'Short']}