Merging two lists as a dictionary

[Chris Frost]

I have two lists and would like to merge them into a dictionary, with one
list forming the keywords and the other the values in the dictionary. How could
this be done? "map(None, keyword_list, value_list)" looked great, but it
returns a list of pairs (I'd like to be able to specify values according to
keywords...).

thanks for any pointers!
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