Merging two lists as a dictionary

[Chris Frost]

On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 03:35:39PM +0200, Thomas Wouters wrote:
> >>> keywords = ['s','p','a','m']           
> >>> values = ['eggs', 'ham', 'toast', 'omelet']
> >>> result = {}
> >>> for i in range(min(len(keywords), len(values))):
> ...     result[keywords[i]] = values[i]
> ... 
> >>> result
> {'m': 'omelet', 's': 'eggs', 'p': 'ham', 'a': 'toast'}
> 
> the 'min()' is unecessary if you are 100% certain the lists are same length,
> or if you know which list will be the shorter one. (iter over the shortest
> one, in that case)
Great, that works better than my error checking method.

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