Permutations between two lists of unequal length

I’m having trouble wrapping my head around a algorithm I’m try to implement. I have two lists and want to take particular combinations from the two lists.

Here’s an example.

names = ['a', 'b']
numbers = [1, 2]

the output in this case would be:

[('a', 1), ('b', 2)]
[('b', 1), ('a', 2)]

I might have more names than numbers, i.e. len(names) >= len(numbers). Here’s an example with 3 names and 2 numbers:

names = ['a', 'b', 'c']
numbers = [1, 2]

output:

[('a', 1), ('b', 2)]
[('b', 1), ('a', 2)]
[('a', 1), ('c', 2)]
[('c', 1), ('a', 2)]
[('b', 1), ('c', 2)]
[('c', 1), ('b', 2)]

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