How to insert items in a list between items in another list?

Asked Apr 29 '21 at 14:28

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I have two lists:

list1=[1,2,3]
list2=[0,0]

how would I code it so that it looks something like this:

list1=[1,0,2,0,3]

I know it involves looping, and I had something like this in mind, but it's not working

for items in zero:
   for position in list1:

edited Apr 29 '21 at 14:29

jonrsharpe

asked Apr 29 '21 at 14:28

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Look into `zip(...)` and `itertools.zip_longest(...)`. – Jan Apr 29 '21 at 14:29
`zipped = zip(list1, list2)` and then use `output = list(sum(zipped, ()))` to flatten list of tuples – blkpingu Apr 29 '21 at 14:34

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