Convert two lists into a dictionary in Python

Question

Imagine that you have:

keys = ['name', 'age', 'food']
values = ['Monty', 42, 'spam']

What is the simplest way to produce the following dictionary?

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

Answer 1

A more natural way is to use dictionary comprehension

keys = ('name', 'age', 'food')
values = ('Monty', 42, 'spam')    
dict = {keys[i]: values[i] for i in range(len(keys))}