how to remove multiple occurrences of a string within a list?

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for item in listA:
    while item in listB:
        listB.remove(item)

where listA is the list of things you want to remove from listB

On 3 Apr 2007 11:20:33 -0700, bahoo <b83503104 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a list like ['0024', 'haha', '0024']
> and as output I want ['haha']
>
> If I
> myList.remove('0024')
>
> then only the first instance of '0024' is removed.
>
> It seems like regular expressions is the rescue, but I couldn't find
> the right tool.
>
> Thanks!
> bahoo
>
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