Faster (smarter?) dictionary building

[David Eppstein]

In article <mailman.259.1067543149.702.python-list at python.org>,
 "Michael T. Babcock" <mbabcock at fibrespeed.net> wrote:

> I have a list of column headings and an array of values:
> headings, values = ['a', 'b', 'c'], [1, 2, 3]
> 
> I want to construct a dictionary such that d['a'] = 1 and so on.

d = dict(zip(headings,values))

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David Eppstein                      http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science