How to test if one dict is subset of another?

[Jay Tee]

Hi

your post had the following construct:

>     for j in (index['user']['jeff'] & index['state']['running']):
>         do_something()

but

Python 2.3.4 (#1, Oct 11 2006, 06:18:43)
[GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)] on linux2
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>>> l1= [3, 4, 7, 2]
>>> l2 = [2, 3]
>>> l2 = [2, 3, 99]
>>> l1 & l2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for &: 'list' and 'list'

what am I missing?

Thanks

JT