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How to generate dictionaries from multiple lists?

I have the following lists :

valuevalues = [4, 5, 35, 23, 16, 7, 12]
labelvalues = ['john', 'joe', 'Pier', 'Paul', 'Moe', 'Jane', 'Ruth']
labels = ['label' for i in range(len(valuevalues))]
values = ['value' for i in range(len(valuevalues))]

And I would like to generate the following dictionaries:

[{'label': 'john', 'value':4},
 {'label': 'joe', 'value':5},
 {'label': 'Pier', 'value':35},
 ...
 {'label': 'Ruth', 'value':12}]

Which kind of loop or function Should I use?

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Answer

Use zip and the following comprehension:

[{"label": l, "value": v} for l, v in zip(labelvalues, valuevalues)]
# [{'label': 'john', 'value': 4}, {'label': 'joe', 'value': 5}, 
#  {'label': 'Pier', 'value': 35}, {'label': 'Paul', 'value': 23}, 
#  {'label': 'Moe', 'value': 16}, {'label': 'Jane', 'value': 7}, 
#  {'label': 'Ruth', 'value': 12}]
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