Most efficient solution?

[William Park]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 06:03:27PM +0200, Alex Martelli wrote:
> "Jay Parlar" <jparlar at home.com> wrote in message
> news:mailman.995289809.28477.python-list at python.org...
>     ...
> > for eachItem in A:
> >     if eachItem in B:
> >         A.remove(eachItem)
> >
> > Now, this will work fine,
> 
> Are you sure about that?  Normally, modifying the list
> you're iterating on does NOT work fine.

Good point.  Most of us knew what he meant, though.

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