<s>[INST] Map two lists into a dictionary in Python 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'}

This code works, but I'm not really proud of it :
dict = {}
junk = map(lambda k, v: dict.update({k: v}), keys, values)

 [/INST] 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
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