complementary lists?

[Kay Schluehr]

On 29 Apr., 05:41, Ross <ross.j... at gmail.com> wrote:
> If I have a list x = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9] and another list that is a
> subset of x:  y = [1,4,7] , is there a quick way that I could return
> the complementary subset to y.... z=[2,3,5,6,8,9] ?
>
> The reason I ask is because I have a generator function that generates
> a list of tuples and I would like to divide this list into
> complementary lists.

z = [u for u in x if u not in y]

or

z = [u for u in x if u not in set(y)]

Since you are dealing with tuples and a natural order might not be
that relevant you can also set objects in the first place:

z = x - y