List manipulation

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The direct approach would be to manipulate and check the given lists to solve this. This solution uses a helper function, which simplifies things, but the approach can be implemented without it.

SUBLIST = 1
SUPERLIST = 2
EQUAL = 3
UNEQUAL = 4

def check_sub_sequences(list_a, list_b):
    len_a = len(list_a)
    len_b = len(list_b)
    return any(list_b[i : i + len_a] == list_a for i in range(len_b - len_a + 1))

def sublist(list_one, list_two):
    if list_one == list_two:
        return EQUAL
    if check_sub_sequences(list_one, list_two):
        return SUBLIST
    if check_sub_sequences(list_two, list_one):
        return SUPERLIST
    return UNEQUAL
Note

You might wonder why the lists in the helper function are named list_a and list_b instead of list_one and list_two. This is because if the parameters have the same name, Pylint thinks the parameters are being passed in incorrectly when we call check_sub_sequences(list_two, list_one). (The exact warning generated is W1114 arguments-out-of-order.)

In this approach, we first check for equality using the == operator, and if the lists are equal, then we return EQUAL. After that, we call check_sub_sequences(), passing in list_one and list_two for the parameters list_a and list_b.

In the helper function, we check if any of the possible sub-sequences in list_b of length len_a (the length of list_a) are equal to list_a. If so, then we conclude that list_a is a SUBLIST of list_b.

To find whether list_one is a SUPERLIST of list_two, we just reverse this process — pass in the lists in the opposite order. Thus, we check if any of the possible sub-sequences in list_one of the length of list_two are equal to list_two.

If none of the above conditions are true, we conclude that the two lists are UNEQUAL.

07 de outubro de 2026 · Achaste útil?

Outras abordagens a Sublista em Python

Outras formas de a nossa comunidade resolver este exercício
# WARNING: Failing approach
def sublist(list_one, list_two):
    list_one_check = str(list_one).strip("[]")
    ...
    if list_one_check in list_two_check:
        return SUBLIST
    ...
    return UNEQUAL
Using strings

Convert the lists to string and use string manipulation to solve the exercise 

while index_one < len(list_one) and index_two < len(list_two):
    if list_one[index_one] == list_two[index_two]:
        index_one += 1
    else:
        index_one = 0
        index_two = next_index_two
        next_index_two += 1
    index_two += 1
Manual looping

Manually track indexes while looping through the lists to solve the exercise 

def sublist(list_one, list_two):
    ...
    shorter, longer = sorted((list_one, list_two), key=len)

    for index in range(len(longer) - len(shorter) + 1):
        if longer[index : index + len(shorter)] == shorter:
            return SUPERLIST if longer is list_one else SUBLIST
    return UNEQUAL
Sorting lists

Sort the lists to determine the shorter and longer ones to solve the exercise