Create dict from two lists

Carsten Haese carsten at uniqsys.com
Fri Feb 10 08:56:17 EST 2006


On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 08:51, py wrote:
> I have two lists which I want to use to create a dictionary.  List x
> would be the keys, and list y is the values.
> 
> x = [1,2,3,4,5]
> y = ['a','b','c','d','e']
> 
> Any suggestions?  looking for an efficent simple way to do this...maybe
> i am just having a brain fart...i feel like this is quit simple.

d = dict(zip(x,y))

-Carsten





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