"Chaz Ginger" <cginboston at hotmail.com> wrote in message news:45227BA1.6080107 at hotmail.com... > Each item in the list is a fully qualified domain name, e.g. > foo.bar.com. The order in the list has no importance. So you don't actually need to use lists at all, then. You can just use sets and write: newSet = bigSet - littleSet