comparing two lists and returning "position"

Hi there, I have a 2 lists.. for simplicities sake lets say the are: l1 = [ 'abc' 'ghi' 'mno' ] l2 = [ 'abc' 'def' 'ghi' 'jkl 'mno' 'pqr'] what I need to do is compare l1 against l2 and return the "position" of where each object in l1 is in l2 ie: pos = 0, 2, 4 Thanks in advance, -h -- http

Re: comparing two lists and returning "position"

On Jun 22, 1:46 am, Charles Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Rubin wrote: > > > from itertools import izip > > pos = map(dict(izip(l2, count())).__getitem__, l1) > > or probably less efficiently ... > > >>> l1 = [ 'abc', 'ghi', 'mno' ] > >>> l2 = [ 'abc', 'def', 'ghi', 'jkl', 'mno', 'pqr

Re: comparing two lists and returning "position"

On Jun 22, 2:16 am, hiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 22, 1:46 am, Charles Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Paul Rubin wrote: > > > > from itertools import izip > > > pos = map(dict(izip(l2, count())).__getitem__, l1) > > >

Re: comparing two lists and returning "position"

On Jun 22, 1:56 pm, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, hiro wrote: > > Hi once again, Charles.. I have tried your approach in my data set l2 > > and it keeps crashing on me, > > bare in mind that I have a little

Re: comparing two lists and returning "position"

On Jun 22, 1:58 pm, hiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 22, 1:56 pm, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, hiro wrote: > > > Hi once again, Charles.. I have tried your approach in my data

Re: comparing two lists and returning "position"

On Jun 22, 2:00 pm, hiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 22, 1:58 pm, hiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Jun 22, 1:56 pm, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, hiro wrote: &

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