How to turn multiple lists into a list of sublists where each sublist is made up of the same index items across all lists?

Question

How to turn multiple lists into one list of sublists, where each sublist is made up of the items at the same index across the original lists?

lsta = ['a','b','c','d']
lstb = ['a','b','c','d']
lstc = ['a','b','c','d']

Desired_List = [['a','a','a'],['b','b','b'],['c','c','c'],['d','d','d']]

I can't seem to use zip here, so how would I do this?

Answer 1

Using zip , under duress:

>>> zip(lsta, lstb, lstc)
[('a', 'a', 'a'), ('b', 'b', 'b'), ('c', 'c', 'c'), ('d', 'd', 'd')]

If Python 3, you'll need to convert the zip to a list:

>>> list(zip(lsta, lstb, lstc))
[('a', 'a', 'a'), ('b', 'b', 'b'), ('c', 'c', 'c'), ('d', 'd', 'd')]

Answer 2

List of list will give like this:

>>> [list(x) for x in zip(lsta, lstb, lstc)]
[['a', 'a', 'a'], ['b', 'b', 'b'], ['c', 'c', 'c'], ['d', 'd', 'd']]
>>>