Extended zip() for lists

[Duncan Booth]

Florian Reiser wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have 4 lists: a, b, c and d
> Out of this 4 lists I want to build a table (e.g. list of lists):
> 
> a|b|c|d
> ---------------------------
> a1|b1|c1|d1
> a1|b2|    |d2
> 
> You see: the lists are not equally sized.
> Is there a command which fills up the shorter lists with blanks?
> Like an enhanced zip() command, maybe?
> 
> Regards
> Florian Reiser
> 

I posted a function to do this back in January. See:

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/f424f63bfdb77c4/88d1541e632adfdd?lnk=st&rnum=1#88d1541e632adfdd