I'm trying to a get a subset of elements of L1, which do not match with any element of another list >>> L1 = ["apple", "banana", "cherry", "date"] >>> L2 = ["bananaana", "datedate"] >>> For instance, from these two lists, I want to create a list ['apple', 'cherry'] >>> [x for x in L1 for y in L2 if x in y] ['banana', 'date'] >>> The above nested list comprehension helps to get element which matches, but not other way >>> [x for x in L1 for y in L2 if x not in y] ['apple', 'apple', 'banana', 'cherry', 'cherry', 'date'] >>> ^^^^^^^^ I was expecting here ['apple', 'cherry'] Continue reading...
