best way to align words?

[Noah Rawlins]

Noah Rawlins wrote:
> 
>  >>> strList = []
>  >>> strList.append('this is an example of a thing i would like to have')
>  >>> strList.append('another example of something else i would like to 
> have')
>  >>> strList.append('and this is another " example " but of something ; 
> now i would still like to have')
>  >>> [word for word in strList[0].split() if word in reduce(lambda x, y: 
> x.intersection(y), [set(str.split()) for str in strList])]
> ['example', 'of', 'i', 'would', 'like', 'to', 'have']
> 

I think that ends up doing the set reduction over and over for every 
word in the first string, so you probably want to move that outside the 
list comprehension

noah