Making a dict from two lists/tuples

[Jonas Meyer Rasmussen]

On Thu, 24 May 2001, Duncan Booth wrote:

> "Jonas Meyer Rasmussen" <meyer at kampsax.dtu.dk> wrote in 
> news:9eiljf$jg1$1 at eising.k-net.dk:
> 
> > for key,value in keys,values
> >     dict[key] = value
> 
> Bzzzt! Wrong answer.

Why is it wrong??
it worked fine on my machine(2.1, win32).

And what is zip supposed to do, i'm trying it here on another machine,
which gives me a NameError(1.6 Linux)

Jonas Meyer Rasmussen
meyer at diku.dk