Evenly assign a list of values to another list of keys so that the each key has almost same total values assigned to it

assignValuesToKeysEvenly.py

# values are highest first

def assignValuesToKeysEvenly(keys, values):
  """ keys are a list containing key names
    values are a list of values 
  """
  keynames = {}
  # make keynames a dict of keynames containing a list of assigned values
  for key in keys:
      keynames[key] = []
  keycount = len(keys)
  for valueindex, value in enumerate(values):
    index = valueindex % (2 * keycount)
# don't do a simple loop, instead make it work like the NBA draft
    if (index > (keycount - 1)):
      index = 2 * keycount - index - 1
    keyname = keys[index]
    keynames[keyname].append(value)
  return keynames