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In Python, when setting the values of a dictionary using an iterable (iterable is any object capable of returning its members one at a time), it is necessary for the keys and values to have equal length.
This means that if you are using a function like zip()
to combine two lists into a dictionary, the length of both lists must be the same. Otherwise, you will get a ValueError: dictionary update sequence element # has length M; 2 is required
error.
Here is an example to illustrate this:
list1 = ['apple', 'banana', 'orange']
list2 = [5, 3, 2, 1]
dictionary = dict(zip(list1, list2))
print(dictionary)
In this example, list1
has 3 elements and list2
has 4 elements. When we try to combine them using zip()
, we get a ValueError
because the lengths are not equal:
ValueError: dictionary update sequence element # has length 4; 2 is required
To resolve this error, make sure that the lengths of both the keys and values are equal. In this case, we can either remove an element from list2
or add an extra element to list1
to make them both have the same length.
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