comparing two lists

[Larry Martell]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 4:45 PM Davor Levicki <dlevicki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> i have two lists
>
> list1 = ['01:15', 'abc', '01:15', 'def', '01:45', 'ghi' ]
> list2 =  ['01:15', 'abc', '01:15', 'uvz', '01:45', 'ghi' ]
>
> and when I loop through the list
>
>
> list_difference = []
> for item in list1:
>
>   if item not in list2:
>     list_difference.append(item)
>
>
> and I managed to get the difference, but I need time as well
> because it is a separate item and 'uvz' does not mean to me anything in the list with a few thousand entries.
> I tried to convert it to the dictionary, but it overwrites with last key:value {'01:15' : 'def'}

Instead of a list you could have a set of tuples and then just subtract them.