OriginalBrownster wrote: > Hi there: > > I know this probably is a very easy thing to do in python, but i wanted > to compare 2 lists and generate a new list that does not copy similar > entries. An example below > > list= ["apple", "banana", "grape"] > list2=["orange","banana", "pear"] > > now I want to compare these lits and generate a third list after > comparison > > list3 would be ["apple", "banana","grape","orange", "pear"] > > hence the double entry would not show up? > > Is there a way to do this?? > > Stephen
How about: list3 = list1 + [item for item in list2 if item not in list1] print list3: ['apple', 'banana', 'grape', 'orange', 'pear'] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list