Hey! And this solves the "count number of matching items in two lists"
nicely:

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def count(alist, blist):
	clist = alist + blist
	adict = {}
	for key in clist:
                if key not in adict: adict[key] = 0
		else: adict[key] += 1
	return reduce(lambda x, y: x + y, adict.values())
###

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