Python - Intersectiing strings

Question

Trying to write a for function that takes two strings and returns the characters that intersect in the order that they appear in the first string.

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Answer 1

You can use python sets http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#set to do this, like so:

>>> set("asdfasdfasfd") & set("qazwsxedc")
set(['a', 's', 'd'])