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

method without zip function

l1 = [1,2,3,4,5]
l2 = ['a','b','c','d','e']
d1 = {}
for l1_ in l1:
    for l2_ in l2:
        d1[l1_] = l2_
        l2.remove(l2_)
        break  

print (d1)


{1: 'd', 2: 'b', 3: 'e', 4: 'a', 5: 'c'}