Finding elements not in a list

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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)

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