I know how to get an intersection of two flat lists:
b1 = [1,2,3,4,5,9,11,15] b2 = [4,5,6,7,8] b3 = [val for val in b1 if val in b2]
or
c1 = [1, 6, 7, 10, 13, 28, 32, 41, 58, 63] c2 = [[13, 17, 18, 21, 32], [7, 11, 13, 14, 28], [1, 5, 6, 8, 15, 16]] c3 = [list(set(c2[i]).intersection(set(c1))) for i in xrange(len(c2))] c3 ->[[32, 13], [28, 13, 7], [1, 6]]