Python merge lists by common element

Question

Im trying to merge two lists that have a common thing between them (in that case is a the id parameter). I have something like this:

list1=[(id1,host1

Answer 1

Code:

list1=[('id1','host1'),('id2','host2'),('id1','host5'),('id3','host4'),('id4','host6'),('id5','host8')]
list1 = map(list,list1)
list2=[('id1','IP1'),('id2','IP2'),('id3','IP3'),('id4','IP4'),('id5','IP5')]
list2 = map(list,list2)

for item in list1:
    item += [x[1] for x in list2 if x[0]==item[0]]

list1 += [x for x in list2 if not any(i for i in list1 if x[0]==i[0])]

print list1

Ouptut:

[['id1', 'host1', 'IP1'], ['id2', 'host2', 'IP2'], ['id1', 'host5', 'IP1'], ['id3', 'host4', 'IP3'], ['id4', 'host6', 'IP4'], ['id5', 'host8', 'IP5']]  

Hope This helps :)