sets and subsets

[Elaine Jackson]

b=[x for x in b if x not in c]

"Bart Nessux" <bart_nessux at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c0e4g3$r1$1 at solaris.cc.vt.edu...
| By using lists, I can create sets of number. Suppose I have three lists.
| One list is the super-set, one is a set that contains all the numbers
| (just like the super-set) and the last is sub-set of the super-set. For
| example:
|
| a = [1,2,3,4,5] # The super-set.
| b = [1,2,3,4,5] # Looks just like the super-set, but it's not.
| c = [2,4] # A sub-set
|
| I'd like to remove 2 & 4 from set b BECAUSE they are present in set c...
| this would make the sets look like this:
|
| a = [1,2,3,4,5]
| b = [1,3,5]
| c = [2,4]
|
| How do I test set c to find what it contains and then look at set b to
| see if it contains any of those same numbers, and if so, remove them.
|