"MonkeeSage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
OK, I didn't read the question that way. I thought the person just wanted a yes or no answer to whether the list contained any elements outside the desired range. If the purpose is to select the elements in the range, then use filter/ifilter or a different listcomp/genexp: inrange = [x for x in ll if 0<=x<=maxnum] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
