Map two lists into a dictionary in Python

Q:

Imagine that you have:

keys = ('name', 'age', 'food')
values = ('Monty', 42, 'spam')

What is the simplest way to produce the following dictionary ?

dict = {'name' : 'Monty', 'age' : 42, 'food' : 'spam'}

Answer:

Like this:

>>> keys = ['a', 'b', 'c']
>>> values = [1, 2, 3]
>>> dictionary = dict(zip(keys, values))
>>> print dictionary
{'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3}

Voila :-) The pairwise dict constructor and zip function are awesomely useful:https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#func-dict