Finding elements not in a list

list, python

Solution

Your code is not doing what I think you think it is doing. The line `for item in z:` will iterate through `z`, each time making `item` equal to one single element of `z`. The original `item` list is therefore overwritten before you've done anything with it.

I think you want something like this:

item = [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]

for element in item:
    if element not in z:
        print(element)

But you could easily do this like:

[x for x in item if x not in z]

or (if you don't mind losing duplicates of non-unique elements):

set(item) - set(z)

Problem

So heres my code: ``` item = [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9] z = [] # list of integers for item in z: if item not in z: print item ``` `z` contains a list of integers. I want to compare `item` to `z` and print out the numbers that are not in `z` when compared to `item`. I can print the elements that are in `z` when compared not `item`, but when I try and do the opposite using the code above nothing prints. Any help?

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