Is there a way to set all values of a dictionary to zero?

Question

For example, I have a list of ASCII characters and want to zip them with a list of zeroes equal to the number of characters in the ASCII list,

like:

    import string

    a = string.printable
    #Gives all ASCII characters as a list ^
    b = zeroes * len(a)
    c = zip(a,b)

Something like that?

Answer 1

You can use a dict comprehension:

{ x:0 for x in string.printable}