Create dictionary

The countries and capitals lists are again available in the script. It's your job to convert this data to a dictionary where the country names are the keys and the capitals are the corresponding values. As a refresher, here is a recipe for creating a dictionary:

my_dict = {
   "key1":"value1",
   "key2":"value2",
}

In this recipe, both the keys and the values are strings. This will also be the case for this exercise.

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Exercise instructions

With the strings in countries and capitals, create a dictionary called europe with 4 key:value pairs. Beware of capitalization! Make sure you use lowercase characters everywhere.
Print out europe to see if the result is what you expected.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Definition of countries and capital
countries = ['spain', 'france', 'germany', 'norway']
capitals = ['madrid', 'paris', 'berlin', 'oslo']

# From string in countries and capitals, create dictionary europe
europe = {'spain':'madrid', ___, ___, ___ }

# Print europe

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