Combine two lists as key/value pairs in a dictionary

Question

Example:

a = ["a","b"]
b = [("Aa","aA"),("Bb","bB")]

result = {"a":("Aa","aA"),"b":("Bb","bB")}

Answer 1

Use dict and zip:

>>> dict(zip(a, b))
{'a': ('Aa', 'aA'), 'b': ('Bb', 'bB')}