Source: 📖 Effective Python item 8

Use zip_longest as an alternative when necessary

zip_longest can be imported from the itertools built-in module. It will keep yielding tuples for the length of the longest iterable involved within the function, yielding None where blanks are found.

name = ('Donald', 'Joe', 'Obama')
surname = ('Trump', 'Biden')

for first, last in zip(name, surname):
	print(first, last)

>>>
Donald Trump
Joe Biden
Obama None

See also:

• How zip works