Duncan Booth: > And for Python 2.5 users only we have the exciting new option of: > >>> foo = [5, 2, -1, -7, 3, -6, 2, 12] > >>> min(foo, key=abs) > -1
Good. This is possibility for older Python: l = [(rnd()-0.5) * 20 for i in xrange(1000)] print min( (abs(el), el) for el in l )[1] Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
