30-seconds-of-code/snippets/python/s/to-dictionary.md

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title	type	language	tags	excerpt	cover	dateModified
Lists to dictionary	snippet	python	list dictionary	Combines two lists into a dictionary, using the first one as the keys and the second one as the values.	purple-sunset	2020-11-02T19:28:35+02:00

Combines two lists into a dictionary, where the elements of the first one serve as the keys and the elements of the second one serve as the values. The values of the first list need to be unique and hashable.

• Use zip() in combination with dict() to combine the values of the two lists into a dictionary.

def to_dictionary(keys, values):
  return dict(zip(keys, values))

to_dictionary(['a', 'b'], [1, 2]) # { a: 1, b: 2 }