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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def zipLists(*lists):
 """ Checks to see if all of the lists are the same length, and throws an AssertionError otherwise. Returns the zipped lists. """

    length = len(lists[0])
    for i, list_ in enumerate(lists[1:]):
        if len(list_) != length:
            msg = "List at index {} has length {} != {}".format(
                i + 1, len(list_), length)
            raise AssertionError(msg)
    return zip(*lists)