Loop over 2 lists, repeating the shortest until end of longest

Question

I am sure there is an easy and obvious way to do this, but I have been googling and reading the docs and I just cannot find anything.

This is what I want to achieve:

Answer 1

import itertools
la = ['a1', 'a2', 'a3', 'a4']
lb = ['b1', 'b2']
for i, j in zip(la, itertools.cycle(lb)):
    print('_'.join((i,j)))