Pythonic way to combine two lists in an alternating fashion?

Question

I have two lists, the first of which is guaranteed to contain exactly one more item than the second. I would like to know the most Pythonic way to create a

Answer 1

An alternative in a functional & immutable way (Python 3):

from itertools import zip_longest
from functools import reduce

reduce(lambda lst, zipped: [*lst, *zipped] if zipped[1] != None else [*lst, zipped[0]], zip_longest(list1, list2),[])