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Python: Finding corresponding indices for an intersection of two lists

I have the following line of code:

for i in [i for i,x in enumerate(catdate) if x == set(NNSRCfile['datetimenew']).intersection(catdate)]:
    print i

I am trying to find the index of the intersection for the two components above. Both are lengthy lists that have several commonalities. The intersection part works perfectly; however, the for loop seems to output nothing. (ie: there is nothing that is printed).

Python outputs no error, and when I run the code in IPython, I notice that i is equivalent to to the very last element in the list “catdate”, instead of listing the indices of “catdate” that are equivalent to the intersection values.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

If you want to test whether x is in your intersection, you should use:

indices = [i for (i, x) in enumerate(catdate) if x in set(NNSRCfile['datetimenew']).intersection(catdate)]
for i in indices:
    print i

Otherwise, you’re comparing a single element to a set, which is unlikely to work (therefore, the test always fail, your indices list is empty, nothing gets printed…