"Jonas Meyer Rasmussen" <meyer at kampsax.dtu.dk> wrote in message news:9eiljf$jg1$1 at eising.k-net.dk... > for key,value in keys,values > dict[key] = value >>> dict {'foo': 'bar', 1: 2} How about: for key, value in map(None, keys, values): dict[key] = value