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From: Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 01:13:33 -0500 (EST)
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Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> Wrote in message:
> Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> 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)}
> 
> This one, with the caveat to use PEP-8 compatible formatting::
> 
>     z = {a: b for (a, b) in zip(x, y)}

Or just z = dict(zip (x, y))
> 



-- 
DaveA