Get difference between two lists

Question

I have two lists in Python, like these:

temp1 = [\'One\', \'Two\', \'Three\', \'Four\']
temp2 = [\'One\', \'Two\']

I need to create a third

Answer 1

In [5]: list(set(temp1) - set(temp2))
Out[5]: ['Four', 'Three']

Beware that

In [5]: set([1, 2]) - set([2, 3])
Out[5]: set([1]) 

where you might expect/want it to equal set([1, 3]). If you do want set([1, 3]) as your answer, you'll need to use set([1, 2]).symmetric_difference(set([2, 3])).