Converting to lists into one dictionary

[Brian E Gallew]

Then <ivanlan at callware.com> spoke up and said:
> This makes me wonder--why is there no canonical "dict()" built in
> function?  We have "long()", "list()" and so on, but nothing like them
> for dictionaries.  They all know what to do when fed improper input.

Because there is no obviously correct behaviour for such a function.
Two obvious cases:
a) dict(list1, list2) # What should it do if the lists aren't the same
size?
b) dict(list1) # Is list1 keys, values, or both?

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