create dictionary from list of variables

You can't do it without writing at least the variable names, but a shorthand can be written like this:

>>> foo = 1
>>> bar = 2
>>> d = dict(((k, eval(k)) for k in ('foo', 'bar')))
>>> d
{'foo': 1, 'bar': 2}

or as a function:

def createDict(*args):
     return dict(((k, eval(k)) for k in args))

>>> createDict('foo','bar')
{'foo': 1, 'bar': 2}

you can also use globals() instead of eval():

>>> dict(((k, globals()[k]) for k in ('foo', 'bar')))

pip install sorcery

from sorcery import dict_of

a = 1
b = 2
c = 3
d = dict_of(a, b, c)
print(d)
# {'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3}

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