How can i zip() two lists together without the output having "\n" at the beginning of every second element?

I currently have two lists

songlist = []
artistlist = []

I return

list(zip(songlist, artistlist))

and it gives me what I want(a 3d list of a 2d list containing each song title and respective artist) but before each second item in each list is "\n"

for example a list in the 3d list would look like: ["Amarillo By Morning","\nGeorge Strait"]

I'm gonna be using the artist in a later function so I'd rather there not be the \n there.

instead of my above code i tried returning a variable containing:

[i + j for i, j in zip(songlist, artistlist)]

but that just returned: ["Amarillo By Morning\nGeorge Strait", ... cont.

To avoid making another iterator, you can just modify each artist as they come along, if you can't modify it at the source.

Also, return a list instead of using string concatenation if you want a list.

[[song, artist.strip()] for song, artist in zip(songlist, artistlist)]