On 4/19/05, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > astr = "Bob Carol Ted Alice" > letters = "adB" > > import sets > alist = [lttr for lttr in astr if lttr in Set(letters)] > newstr = "" > for lttr in alist: > newstr += lttr
>>> astr = "Bob Carol Ted Alice" >>> letters = "adB" >>> s1 = set(astr) # set is a core data type in Py2.4 >>> s2 = set(letters) >>> ''.join(s1 & s2) 'aBd' >>> . Facundo Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
