Making a dict from two lists/tuples

[Richard Brodie]

"Jonas Meyer Rasmussen" <meyer at kampsax.dtu.dk> wrote in message news:9eiljf$jg1$1 at eising.k-net.dk...
> for key,value in keys,values
>     dict[key] = value

>>> dict
{'foo': 'bar', 1: 2}

How about:
for key, value in map(None, keys, values):
     dict[key] = value