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

keys = ['name', 'age', 'food']
values = ['Monty', 42, 'spam']
index=np.arange(0,len(keys)-1)

df=pd.DataFrame(list(zip(keys,values)), columns=['keys','values'])
df.set_index('keys')
print(df.head())

data_dict = df.iloc[index].set_index('keys')['values'].to_dict() 
print(data_dict)

zip creates a generator of parallel values list() instantiates the full generator and passing that into the dataframe which converts the whole expression. resulting output:

two lists:

    keys values
 0  name  Monty
 1   age     42
 2  food   spam
 

Output: dictionary

 {'name': 'Monty', 'age': 42}