如果布尔与是指同时出现在两个列表中的项，例如交集，那么你应该看看Python的set和frozenset类型。

如果你将两个列表中较大的一个转换为一个集合，你可以使用intersection()获得该集合与任何可迭代对象的交集:

a = [1,2,3,4,5]
b = [1,3,5,6]
set(a).intersection(b)

对我来说，使用列表推导式是一个非常明显的方法。不确定性能如何，但至少能保持列表。

[x for x in a if x in b]

或者"所有在A中的x值，如果x值在B中"

当我们使用tuple时，我们想要交叉

a=([1,2,3,4,5,20], [8,3,9,5,1,4,20])

for i in range(len(a)):

    b=set(a[i-1]).intersection(a[i])
print(b)
{1, 3, 4, 5, 20}

这里的大多数解决方案都不考虑列表中元素的顺序，而是将列表视为集合。另一方面，如果希望找到两个列表中包含的一个最长子序列，则可以尝试以下代码。

def intersect(a, b):
    if a == [] or b == []: 
        return []
    inter_1 = intersect(a[1:], b)
    if a[0] in b:
        idx = b.index(a[0])
        inter_2 = [a[0]] + intersect(a[1:], b[idx+1:])        
        if len(inter_1) <= len(inter_2):
            return inter_2
    return inter_1

对于a=[1,2,3]和b=[3,1,4,2]，返回[1,2]而不是[1,2,3]。注意，这样的子序列不是唯一的，因为[1]，[2]，[3]都是a=[1,2,3]和b=[3,2,1]的解。

这可能是晚了，但我只是认为我应该分享的情况下，你需要手动做(显示工作-哈哈)或当你需要所有元素出现尽可能多的次数或当你也需要它是唯一的。

请注意，还为它编写了测试。

    from nose.tools import assert_equal

    '''
    Given two lists, print out the list of overlapping elements
    '''

    def overlap(l_a, l_b):
        '''
        compare the two lists l_a and l_b and return the overlapping
        elements (intersecting) between the two
        '''

        #edge case is when they are the same lists
        if l_a == l_b:
            return [] #no overlapping elements

        output = []

        if len(l_a) == len(l_b):
            for i in range(l_a): #same length so either one applies
                if l_a[i] in l_b:
                    output.append(l_a[i])

            #found all by now
            #return output #if repetition does not matter
            return list(set(output))

        else:
            #find the smallest and largest lists and go with that
            sm = l_a if len(l_a)  len(l_b) else l_b

            for i in range(len(sm)):
                if sm[i] in lg:
                    output.append(sm[i])

            #return output #if repetition does not matter
            return list(set(output))

    ## Test the Above Implementation

    a = [1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89]
    b = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]
    exp = [1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13]

    c = [4, 4, 5, 6]
    d = [5, 7, 4, 8 ,6 ] #assuming it is not ordered
    exp2 = [4, 5, 6]

    class TestOverlap(object):

        def test(self, sol):
            t = sol(a, b)
            assert_equal(t, exp)
            print('Comparing the two lists produces')
            print(t)

            t = sol(c, d)
            assert_equal(t, exp2)
            print('Comparing the two lists produces')
            print(t)

            print('All Tests Passed!!')

    t = TestOverlap()
    t.test(overlap)