Return a dictionary from list of key=value strings

parse_keywords

def parse_keywords(keywords):
    """
      Returns a dictionary for valid key=value strings
    """

    d = {}
    try:
       d = dict([x.split('=',1) for x in keywords])
    except ValueError,e:
       for kw in keywords:
          if '=' not in kw:
             print "Keyword: %s is invalid" % kw
       print "All keywords should be formatted as key=value."


    return d