how to use 2 lists and merge value into one dictionary

Question

Not able to get proper output when tried to use 2 list to make one dictionary

Input is a name list and image list.

name_list = ["Brad Pitt", "Chris Evans"]
image_list = ["http://image_1.png","http://image_2.png"]

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dict = []   
for item in name_lst:
    new_item = []
    new_item.extend(item.split())
    for img in img_url_lst:
        new_img.append(img)
        dict.append({"FirstName:" : new_item[0], "Lastname:" : new_item[1], "ImageURL:":new_img[img]})      
return dict

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"actors": [
 {
  "firstName":"Johnny",
  "lastName":"Depp",
  "imageURL":"http://imageurl/1"
 },
 {
  "firstName":"Ricky",
  "lastName":"Martin",
  "imageURL":"http://imageurl/2"
 }
 ],

Can somebody help me merge two lists and make a dictionary out of it.

The computer will do exactly what you told it to do, and you'll get as many Brad Pitts and Chris Evanses (?) as there are images in `image_list`. Is that what you intended to write? Or did you want to have a one-to-one correspondence between the actors' names and the images? — ForceBru, Jul 12 '19 at 08:46
duplicate https://stackoverflow.com/questions/209840/convert-two-lists-into-a-dictionary — Ashu, Jul 12 '19 at 11:24

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 12 '19 at 08:56

name_list = ["Brad Pitt", "Chris Evans"]
image_list = ["http://image_1.png","http://image_2.png"]

dict = {}
actors = []
for i in range(len(name_list)):
    dict["firstName"] = name_list[i].split()[0]
    dict["lastName"] = name_list[i].split()[1]
    dict["imageURL"] = image_list[i]
    # or
    # dict.update({"firstName": name_list[i].split()[0], "lastName": name_list[i].split()[1], "imageURL": image_list[i]})
    actors.append(dict)

print (actors)

output:

[{'firstName': 'Chris', 'lastName': 'Evans', 'imageURL': 'http://image_2.png'}, {'firstName': 'Chris', 'lastName': 'Evans', 'imageURL': 'http://image_2.png'}]

how to use 2 lists and merge value into one dictionary

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