diff --git a/snippets/map_dictionary.md b/snippets/map_dictionary.md index 0f9633188..f64de87e2 100644 --- a/snippets/map_dictionary.md +++ b/snippets/map_dictionary.md @@ -5,14 +5,13 @@ tags: list,intermediate Maps the values of a list to a dictionary using a function, where the key-value pairs consist of the original value as the key and the result of the function as the value. -- Use a `for` loop to iterate over the list's values, assigning the values produced by `fn` to each key of the dictionary. +- Use `map` to apply `fn` to each value of the list. +- Use `zip` to pair original values to the values produced by `fn`. +- Use `dict` to return a key value pair. ```py def map_dictionary(itr, fn): - ret = {} - for x in itr: - ret[x] = fn(x) - return ret + return dict(zip(itr, map(fn, itr))) ``` ```py