The question was interpreted in two different ways. If the goal is to find all the elements that are common to both lists (regardless of where they appear in the list), that is a list intersection. …

A list in Python is very different from an array. == in this case does an element-wise comparison of the two lists and returns if all their elements are equal and the number and order of the …

Mar 1, 2016 · How can I compare two lists in python and return not matches Asked 9 years, 10 months ago Modified 11 months ago Viewed 97k times

See also: In Python, how do I find common words from two lists while preserving word order? (to keep the order) Python -Intersection of multiple lists? (for computing the intersection between …

May 30, 2022 · In Python 3, though, comparing objects of different types is disallowed in many circumstances -- for example, you can't compare strings to integers -- so if you will have …

Mar 21, 2014 · 37 You can convert the lists to sets and run the usual set operations such as difference or symmetric difference. For example, set(b) - set(a) evaluates to set([7, 8, 9]).

Note that this wouldn't find lists that are in secondList, but not in firstList; though you could always just check both ways like: [x for x in first_list if x not in secnd_list] + [x for x in secnd_list if x not …

Oct 24, 2012 · When comparing b and c, comparisons will stop when 10 and 3 are compared. As soon as an unequal pair is found, the overall result is the result of comparing the unequal …

17 I wanted something that would take two lists and could do what diff in bash does. Since this question pops up first when you search for "python diff two lists" and is not very specific, I will …

Feb 27, 2015 · Suppose I have two lists (or numpy.arrays): a = [1,2,3] b = [4,5,6] How can I check if each element of a is smaller than corresponding element of b at the same index? (I am …