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

You can treat them as sets and use set.intersection():

lists = [range(100)[::4], range(100)[::3], range(100)[::2], range(100)[::1]]
sets = [set(l) for l in lists]

isect = reduce(lambda x,y: x.intersection(y), sets)