Merging two lists as a dictionary

[Ivan Van Laningham]

Hi All--

Chris Frost wrote:
> 
> 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!

Here's a simplistic implementation:
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#!/usr/local/bin/python

k = ["one","two","three"]
v = [1,2,3]
d = {}

n = 0
for i in k:
    d[i] = v[n]
    n = n + 1

print "Keys:", k
print "Values:", v
print "Dictionary:", d
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Alternatively, you could take the list of pairs (tuples) you get back
from map() and iterate over that:

for i in pairs:
	dict[i[0]] = i[1]

<you're-in-trouble-if-the-lists-aren't-the-same-length>-ly y'rs,
Ivan
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