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
We can use set methods for this:
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]] result = [] for li in c2: res = set(li) & set(c1) result.append(list(res)) print result