Python dictionaries (data science - medical insurance project)

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Hi. Can anyone explain this to me.
In [Python dictionaries (data science - medical insurance project)] exercise, I tried this.

names = [“Marina”, “Vinay”, “Connie”, “Isaac”, “Valentina”]
ages =[27, 24, 43, 35, 52]
zipped_ages = zip(names, ages)
print(list(zipped_ages))

output: [(‘Marina’, 27), (‘Vinay’, 24), (‘Connie’, 43), (‘Isaac’, 35), (‘Valentina’, 52)]

Then when I entered this:
names_to_ages = {key:value for key, value in zipped_ages}
print(names_to_ages)

output: {}

Can anyone explain why?

[victoria-dr]

In fact, the output of the second method is:

{'Isaac': 35, 'Marina': 27, 'Connie': 43, 'Vinay': 24, 'Valentina': 52}

Note that the key-value pairs can be printed in any order since dictionaries are unordered (meaning they don’t have a specific index position).

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Knowing this, could you restate your question? Are you asking why the first method returns a list of tuples and the second returns a dictionary?