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

with Python 3.x, goes for dict comprehensions

keys = ('name', 'age', 'food')
values = ('Monty', 42, 'spam')

dic = {k:v for k,v in zip(keys, values)}

print(dic)

More on dict comprehensions here, an example is there:

>>> print {i : chr(65+i) for i in range(4)}
    {0 : 'A', 1 : 'B', 2 : 'C', 3 : 'D'}