Take the intersection of an arbitrary number of lists in python

Question

Suppose I have a list of lists of elements which are all the same (i\'ll use ints in this example)

[range(100)[::4], range(100)[::3], range(100)         


        

Answer 1

I think the built-in set module should do the trick.

>>> elements = [range(100)[::4], range(100)[::3], range(100)[::2], range(100)[::1]]
>>> sets = map(set, elements)
>>> result = list(reduce(lambda x, y: x & y, sets))
>>> print result
[0, 96, 36, 72, 12, 48, 84, 24, 60]