python - Assigning Elements/Keys to a Dictionary -

im assigning number of elements dictionary via list based elements.

such :

z = mylist query_dict = {"hostname":z[0],"ttl":z[1],"class":z[2],"type":z[3],"details":z[4]} 

however wondered if there more elegant approach this, such way can assign variables list :

a,b,c,d,e = z 

thanks,

>>> terms = ["hostname","ttl","class","type","details"] >>> z = [1,2,3,4,5] >>> dict(zip(terms,z)) {'hostname': 1, 'type': 4, 'class': 3, 'details': 5, 'ttl': 2} 

how works:

the dict class has initialization method takes iterable:

 |  dict(iterable) -> new dictionary initialized if via:  |      d = {}  |      k, v in iterable:  |          d[k] = v 

where iterable contains/yields key value pairs in form (key,value). using zip can generate these pairs:

>>> zip(terms,z) [('hostname', 1), ('ttl', 2), ('class', 3), ('type', 4), ('details', 5)] 

hence feed in iterable constructor resulting in our desired dictionary.