"Fiyawerx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> list1 = ['one', 'two', 'three']
> list2 = ['one', 'two', 'four', 'five']
> list3 = ['two', 'three', 'six', 'seven']
> list4 = ['three', 'five', 'six']
>
> I need to be able to get along the lines of output:
> Element 'one' contained in list1 and list2
> Element 'two' contained in list1 and list2 and list3
> ...
> Element 'five' contained in list2 and list4
>
> etc.. and I can't quite figure out how to go about it
There are lots of approaches, one of the easest is to
use a dictionary keyed by the elements of the lists
and the values the identity of the list in which it
appears:
d = {}
for n, lst in enumerate([list1,list2,list3,list4[):
for item in lst:
d.setdefault(item,[]).append(n)
Gets close
HTH,
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Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
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