Difference Between Two Lists with Duplicates in Python
<p>I have two lists that contain many of the same items, including duplicate items. I want to check which items in the first list are not in the second list. For example, I might have one list like this:</p>

<pre><code>l1 = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'b', 'c']
</code></pre>

<p>and one list like this:</p>

<pre><code>l2 = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'b']
</code></pre>

<p>Comparing these two lists I would want to return a third list like this:</p>

<pre><code>l3 = ['c']
</code></pre>

<p>I am currently using some terrible code that I made a while ago that I'm fairly certain doesn't even work properly shown below.</p>

<pre><code>def list_difference(l1,l2):
    for i in range(0, len(l1)):
        for j in range(0, len(l2)):
            if l1[i] == l1[j]:
                l1[i] = 'damn'
                l2[j] = 'damn'
    l3 = []
    for item in l1:
        if item!='damn':
            l3.append(item)
    return l3
</code></pre>

<p>How can I better accomplish this task?</p>
