Combining two lists into a dictionary in python [duplicate]

Answer 1

I suspect your teacher wants you to write something like

for i in range(len(listA)):
    print listA[i], listB[i]

However this is an abomination in Python.

Here is one way without using zip

>>> listA = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>> listB = ["red", "blue", "orange", "black", "grey"]
>>> 
>>> b_iter = iter(listB)
>>> 
>>> for item in listA:
...     print item, next(b_iter)
... 
1 red
2 blue
3 orange
4 black
5 grey

However zip is the natural way to solve this, and your teacher should be teaching you to think that way