Ok, here a solution: myFirstList = ["FN067_098_MEN", "FN067_098_JIN", "FN067_098_BG"]
mySecondList = ["FN067_098_MEN_Hair_PUZ_v001.0001.exr","FN067_098_JIN_Hair_SPC_v001.0001.exr","FN067_098_MEN_Jin_MVE_v001.0001.exr","FR043_010_GEN_NRM_v001.0001.exr"] for n in myFirstList: var = str(n) for n in mySecondList: if var in n: mySecondList.remove(n) print mySecondList :) 2010/8/31 Alban Nona <python.k...@gmail.com> > Hi all, > > Im stuck on this problem: > I have a function which return me a list of string (basically the result > looks like: ["FN067_098_MEN", FN067_098_JIN", FN067_098_BG"] > In other hand, I have another list full of that kind of entries: > > ["FN067_098_MEN_Hair_PUZ_v001.0001.exr","FN067_098_JIN_Hair_SPC_v001.0001.exr","FN067_098_MEN_Jin_MVE_v001.0001.exr","FR043_010_GEN_NRM_v001.0001.exr"] > > I would like to do something like this: > > myFirstList = ["FN067_098_MEN", FN067_098_JIN", FN067_098_BG"] > mySecondList = > ["FN067_098_MEN_Hair_PUZ_v001.0001.exr","FN067_098_JIN_Hair_SPC_v001.0001.exr","FN067_098_MEN_Jin_MVE_v001.0001.exr","FR043_010_GEN_NRM_v001.0001.exr"] > > for n in myFirstList: > if n in mySecondList: > mySecondList.remove(n) > > In fact, what I want to do it to remove entries with the secondlist which > content the entries of the first one. But it seems to not work like this. > Someone can help me please ? did I miss something ? > >
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