On Apr 3, 6:05 pm, Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > bahoo wrote: > > The larger problem is, I have a list of strings that I want to remove > > from another list of strings. > > If you don't care about the resulting order:: > > >>> items = ['foo', 'bar', 'baz', 'bar', 'foo', 'frobble'] > >>> to_remove = ['foo', 'bar'] > >>> set(items) - set(to_remove) > set(['frobble', 'baz']) > > If you do care about the resulting order:: > > >>> to_remove = set(to_remove) > >>> [item for item in items if item not in to_remove] > ['baz', 'frobble'] > > STeVe
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