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

Although there are multiple ways of doing this but i think most fundamental way of approaching it; creating a loop and dictionary and store values into that dictionary. In the recursive approach the idea is still same it but instead of using a loop, the function called itself until it reaches to the end. Of course there are other approaches like using dict(zip(key, value)) and etc. These aren't the most effective solutions.

y = [1,2,3,4]
x = ["a","b","c","d"]

# This below is a brute force method
obj = {}
for i in range(len(y)):
    obj[y[i]] = x[i]
print(obj)

# Recursive approach 
obj = {}
def map_two_lists(a,b,j=0):
    if j < len(a):
        obj[b[j]] = a[j]
        j +=1
        map_two_lists(a, b, j)
        return obj
      


res = map_two_lists(x,y)
print(res)

Both the results should print

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