Combining lists to dictionary

From	Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Combining lists to dictionary
Date	2014-11-11 20:43 +0000
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Hi

Given x,y are a lists of keys and value that I wish to combine to a 
dictionary, such that x[n] is the key for value y[n], which is preferred:

z = {a:b for (a,b) in zip(x,y)}
z = {x[n]:y[n] for n in range(min(len(x),len(y)))}

The zip feels more elegant, but it seems clunky to use the zip method to 
create a list of tuples just to split them up into key:value pairs. 
However the zip method handles the inequal length list problem. Granted 
it would probably be advisable to check that x and y are the same length 
before starting anyway.

-- 
Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com

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Combining lists to dictionary Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-11-11 20:43 +0000
  Re: Combining lists to dictionary Gary Herron <gherron@digipen.edu> - 2014-11-11 12:55 -0800
  Re: Combining lists to dictionary Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@technologyhighland.invalid> - 2014-11-11 13:42 -0800
  Re: Combining lists to dictionary Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-11-11 20:06 -0500
  Re: Combining lists to dictionary Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-11-12 12:16 +1100
  Re: Combining lists to dictionary Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-11-12 01:13 -0500

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