python create list of tuples from lists

Question

I have two lists   x     1    2    3   y     a    b    c     and I need to create a list of tuples from these lists  as follows   z      1   a      2   b      3   c      I tried doing it like this   z      a b  for a in x for b in y     but resulted in      1    1      1    2      1    3      2    1      2    2      2    3      3    1      3    2      3    3      i e  a list of tuples of every element in x with every element in y    what is the right approach to do what I wanted to do  thank you     EDIT  The other two duplicates mentioned before the edit is my fault  indented it in another for-loop by mistake

User · Accepted Answer

Use the builtin function zip     In Python 3   z   list zip x y     In Python 2   z   zip x y

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You re after the zip function   Taken directly from the question  How to merge lists into a list of tuples in Python    gt  gt  gt  list a    1  2  3  4   gt  gt  gt  list b    5  6  7  8   gt  gt  gt  zip list a list b    1  5    2  6    3  7    4  8

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You re looking for the zip builtin function  From the docs    gt  gt  gt  x    1  2  3   gt  gt  gt  y    4  5  6   gt  gt  gt  zipped   zip x  y   gt  gt  gt  zipped   1  4    2  5    3  6

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