def intersperse(): print('Please input 2 strings that are the same length.') string1 = '123' string2 = '45' while(len(string1) != len(string2)): string1 = input('string1: ') string2 = input('string2: ') output_string = '' for num in range(len(string1)): output_string=output_string+string1[num]+string2[num] return(output_string)