Pythonic way to merge two overlapping lists, preserving order

Question

Alright, so I have two lists, as such:

• They can and will have overlapping items, for example, [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], [4, 5, 6, 7].
• The

Answer 1

Based on https://stackoverflow.com/a/30056066/541208:

def join_two_lists(a, b):
  index = 0
  for i in xrange(len(b), 0, -1):
    #if everything from start to ith of b is the 
    #same from the end of a at ith append the result
    if b[:i] == a[-i:]:
        index = i
        break

  return a + b[index:]