Convert two lists into a dictionary

Question

Imagine that you have:

keys = [\'name\', \'age\', \'food\']
values = [\'Monty\', 42, \'spam\']

What is the simplest way to produce the foll

Answer 1

A more natural way is to use dictionary comprehension

keys = ('name', 'age', 'food')
values = ('Monty', 42, 'spam')    
dict = {keys[i]: values[i] for i in range(len(keys))}