How to print two lists of different size side by side?

I have two lists of different length that I want to print side by side, separated by a tab. As an example:

a_list = ["a","b","c","d","e"]
b_list = ["f","g","h","i","j","k","l","m","n"]

I tried:

print('A-list:'+ '\t' + 'B-list:')
for i in range(len(b_list)):
    print(a_list[i] + '\t' + b_list[i])

I off course get an "out of range-trace" back because one list is shorter. I do not wish to use zip.

This is a possible solution. It doesn't matter if a_list is longer or shorter than b_list.

def get(lst, idx):
    try:
        return lst[idx]
    except:
        return " "

a_list = ['a','b','c','d','e'] 
b_list = ['f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m','n']

result = []

for i in range(min(len(a_list), len(b_list))):
    result.append(get(a_list, i))
    result.append(get(b_list, i))

for i in range(min(len(a_list), len(b_list)), max(len(a_list), len(b_list))):
    result.append(get(a_list, i))
    result.append(get(b_list, i))

print('\n'.join('\t'.join((result[i], result[i+1]))
                          for i in range(0, len(result), 2)))

This prints the expected output:

a   f
b   g
c   h
d   i
e   j
    k
    l
    m
    n