On Mar 5, 9:03 pm, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe I didn't undrestand the question. Say maxnum is 30 in your > example above. Then as soon as 46 is seen, you can stop checking, I > thought.
Yes, as long as 29 doesn't follow 46. inlist = [1, 5, 23, 46, 29, 21] If you want to preserve the items after 46, then you can't just bail when you see 46. You need to keep looking at the following values and comparing them against the boundry conditions. If the the input is sequential, then this isn't a problem, as all items above 46 are out of range....but if the input is arbitrary, then you have to look at each index individually as you know. So it really comes down to if the data set is ordered or arbitrary as to which approach is more efficient. Regards, Jordan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
