Thanks, itertools.izip and just zip work great. However, I should have mentioned this, is that I need to keep the new dictionary sorted.
d = {1:'first', -5 : 'negative 5', 6:'six', 99:'ninety-nine', 3:'three'} keys = d.keys() keys.sort() vals = map(d.get, keys) At this point keys is sorted [-5, 1, 3, 6, 99] and vals is sorted ['negative 5', 'first', 'three', 'six', 'ninety-nine'] Using zip does not create the dictionary sorted in this order. new_d = dict(zip(keys, vals)) How can I use the two lists, keys and vals to create a dictionary such that the items keep their order? Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list