Most efficient solution?

Alexandre Fayolle alf at leo.logilab.fr
Mon Jul 16 11:38:46 EDT 2001


On 16 Jul 2001 11:06:41 -0400, Alex <new_name at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> C = {}
>> for item in B:
>>     C[item] = 1
>> 
>> A = filter(C.get, A)
>
>I guess that'll drop some elements from A that are in B but evaluate to
>false, though.

I'm pretty sure this will work, though I've not tested. C.get(item) will
return None (thus false) if item was not in B, and 1 (thus true) if item
was in B. You should definitely give a try to this version.

Alexandre Fayolle
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