How to compare 2 lists of unicode ? in python

Question

Hello everyone ,
How can i compare 2 lists of unicode in python?
such as :
mylist=[u'marc',u'max,u'chan',u'jackie']
mysecondlist=[u'marc,u'china',u'france']

thank you for helping me !

Answer 1

There are many ways to compare lists of unicode-encoded strings in Python.

You can compare for equality like this:
mylist=[u'marc',u'max',u'chan',u'jackie']
mysecondlist=[u'marc',u'max', u'chan',u'jackie']

print(mylist == mysecondlist) # prints True indicating they're equal.

You could convert to sets if you want to see what elements are in one set and not in the other like this:

mylist=[u'marc',u'max',u'chan',u'jackie']
mysecondlist=[u'marc',u'china',u'france']

print(list(set(mylist) - set(mysecondlist))) # prints ['max', 'jackie', 'chan']. marc is in mysecondlist so it was not printed.

Answer 2

thank you Josh ! may be you could check my other question : https://www.sololearn.com/Discuss/2739041/comparing-excel-cell-values-with-JUMP_LINK__&&__python__&&__JUMP_LINK-openpyxl