python3 比较列表,如何比较两个列表中的项目Python 3.3

I tried using cmp(list1, list2) to learn it's no longer supported in Python 3.3. I've tried many other complex approaches, but none have worked.

I have two lists of which both contain just words and I want it to check to see how many words feature in both and return the number for how many.

解决方案

You can find the length of the set intersection using & like this:

len(set(list1) & set(list2))

Example:

>>>len(set(['cat','dog','pup']) & set(['rat','cat','wolf']))

1

>>>set(['cat','dog','pup']) & set(['rat','cat','wolf'])

{'cat'}

Alternatively, if you don't want to use sets for some reason, you can always use collections.Counter, which supports most multiset operations:

>>> from collections import Counter

>>> print(list((Counter(['cat','dog','wolf']) & Counter(['pig','fish','cat'])).elements()))

['cat']