title: Creating a dictionary from a string
body: <p>I have a string in the form of:</p>
  
  <pre><code>s = 'A - 13, B - 14, C - 29, M - 99'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and so on (the length varies). What is the easiest way to create a dictionary from this?</p>
  
  <pre><code>A: 13, B: 14, C: 29 ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I know I can split but I can't get the right syntax on how to do it. If I split on <code>-</code>, then how do I join the two parts?</p>
  
  <p>Iterating over this seems to much of a pain. </p>