Answer to Question #176097 in Python for jayanth

Question

Interleave Strings

Given two strings, write a program to merge the given two strings by adding characters in alternating order, starting with the first string. If a string is longer than the other, append the additional characters onto the end of the merged string.Input

The first line of input will contain a string.

The second line of input will contain a string.

The strings may contain special characters, digits and letters.Output

The output should be the merged stringExplanation

For example, if the given strings are "abc" and "pqrs", then alternating characters from each string are merged as "a" from "abc", "p" from "pqr", "b" from "abc" and so on ..., resulting in the merged string "apbqcr".

Sample Input 1

abc

pqr

Sample Output 1

apbqcr

Sample Input 2

abc

pqrst

Sample Output 2

apbqcrst

Answer 1

# Interleave String

s1 = input()
s2 = input()

n = min(len(s1), len(s2))
res = ''
for i in range(n):
    res += s1[i] + s2[i]
if n < len(s1):
    res += s1[n:]
else:
    res += s2[n:]

print(res)