a dict out of the topmost stack slice, after markobject. All the stack entries following the topmost markobject are placed into a single Python dict, which single dict object replaces all of the stack from the topmost markobject onward. The stack slice alternates key, value, key, value, .... For example, Stack before: ... markobject 1 2 3 'abc' Stack after: ... {1: 2, 3: 'abc'} Ú