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pOn Fri, Jun 10, 2016, at 17:07, maurice wrote:
> Hi. If I have already a list of values, let's call it valuesList and the
> keysList, both same sized lists, what is the easiest/quickest way to
> initialize a dictionary with those keys and list, in terms of number of
> lines perhaps?
> 
> example:
> valuesList = [1,2,3]
> keysList   = ['1','2','3']
> 
> So the dictionary can basically convert string to int:
> 
> dictionary = {'1':1, '2':2, '3':3}

dict(zip(keysList, valuesList))