I have two lists that could be not equal in lengths and I want to be able to interleave them. I want to be able to append the extra values in the longer list at the end of my interleaved list.I have this:

    a=xs
b=ys
minlength=[len(a),len(b)]
extralist= list()
interleave= list()
for i in range((minval(minlength))):
    pair=a[i],b[i]
    interleave.append(pair)
    flat=flatten(interleave)
    c=a+b
if len(b)>len(a):
    remainder=len(c)-len(a)
    for j in range(-remainder):
        extra=remainder[j]
        extralist.append(extra)
if len(a)>len(b):
    remainder=len(c)-len(b)
    for j in range(-remainder):
        extra=remainder[j]
final=flat+extralist
return final

but if I test it:

>>> interleave([1,2,3], ["hi", "bye",True, False, 33])
[1, 'hi', 2, 'bye', 3, True]
>>> 

The False and 33 don't appear. What is it that Im doing wrong?