zip will create pairs of elements when passed two lists, and will stop at the end of the shorter list.
zip can handle three or more lists as well!
code:
<span style="font-size:18px;">list_a = [3, 9, 17, 15, 19]
list_b = [2, 4, 8, 10, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90]
for a, b in zip(list_a, list_b):
print max(a,b)</span>