Peter Otten wrote: >>>> it = iter([1,2,3,4,5,6]) >>>> dict(izip(it, it)) > {1: 2, 3: 4, 5: 6} <devo>Zip(it). Zip(it) good.</devo> it's-3:00am-and-i-seriously-need-to-sleep'ly yers... -tkc