How to merge lists into a list of tuples?

Question

What is the Pythonic approach to achieve the following?

# Original lists:

list_a = [1, 2, 3, 4]
list_b = [5, 6, 7, 8]

# List of tuples from \'list_a\' and          


        

Answer 1

In python 3.0 zip returns a zip object. You can get a list out of it by calling list(zip(a, b)).