import numpy as np # init arrays a = np.array([1,2,3,2,3,4,3,4,5,6]) b = np.array([7,2,10,2,7,4,9,4,9,8]) #using enumerate, list comprehension and set print([key for key, val in enumerate(a) if val in set(b)]) # output # [1, 3, 5, 7]