Dictionary Challenge Question

For this challenge question, you are going to write a function that creates a dictionary!

Part 0. Setup

Start by opening your workspace in Visual Studio. Right click on the “lessons” folder and select “add file”. Your file will be named zip.py.

Set up your document by adding the docstring: """Combining two lists into a dictionary""" and initializing the __author__ variable with your PID.

Write a function definition with the following expectations:

The function name is zip and is called with a list[str] and list[int] as arguments.
The function should return a dict[str,int].
The function should produce a dictionary where the keys are the items of the first list and the values are the corresponding items at the same index of the second list.
If the input lists are different lengths or if they are empty, the function should return an empty dictionary.
The function should not mutate (modify) the input lists.
Explicitly type variables, parameters, and return types.

Example usage:

>>> zip(["Happy", "Tuesday"],[1,2])
{"Happy": 1, "Tuesday":2}

Create a .zip file by running the following command in your terminal:

python -m tools.submission lessons/zip.py

Then, drag and drop that .zip file into Gradescope!