Re: filter list fast

2006-03-18 Thread lars_woetmann
comparing [x for x in list1 if x not in list2] with set1, set2 = set(list1), set(list2) list(set1-set2) gives something like len(list2) speedup -- 10010 1000 100 11000 the speedup is constant for different len(list1) -- http://mai

Re: filter list fast

2006-03-18 Thread lars_woetmann
Thanks all, sets work like i charm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

filter list fast

2006-03-18 Thread lars_woetmann
I have a list I filter using another list and I would like this to be as fast as possible right now I do like this: [x for x in list1 if x not in list2] i tried using the method filter: filter(lambda x: x not in list2, list1) but it didn't make much difference, because of lambda I guess is ther