[Tutor] two lists to keys and values in dictionary

[SA]

On 8/12/02 12:48 PM, "Doug.Shawhan@gecits.ge.com"
<Doug.Shawhan@gecits.ge.com> wrote:

> Okay, I have two lists:
> 
> l1=['wicky', 'wacky', 'woo']
> l2=['hip', 'hop', 'hoo']
> 
> and a dictionary
> 
> d={}
> 
> I want to create entries in the dictionary with the contents of l1 as keys
> and l2 as values. I can do it this way:
> 
>>>> count = 0
>>>> for each in l1:
> d[each]= l2[count]
> count = count + 1
> 
> 
>>>> d
> {'woo': 'hoo', 'wacky': 'hop', 'wicky': 'hip'}
> 
> Since both lists have equal values, is there a way to combine both additions
> to the dictionary in the same loop without the kludgey counter?
> 
> Something along the lines of:
> 
> for k, v in l1, l2:
> d[k]=v
> 
> It seems I have seen something similar done, but since I dont' have my books
> today and lunch is short.... :-)
> 
Here is another bit of a cludgeon:

>>> d={}
>>> for k in l1:
...     for v in l2:
...             d[k]=v
... 
>>> print d
{'woo': 'hoo', 'wacky': 'hoo', 'wicky': 'hoo'}


Hope this helps. (one good turn deserves another;))

SA



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