"Su Y" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 3ÔÂ29ÈÕ, ÏÂÎç7ʱ51·Ö, "Su Y" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > I can't understand how this code work, its behavior is really weird > for me... > > I want find the first number in extend[] which is larger than num, soI > wrote: > > def find(num): > count=0 > for elem in extend: > if elem<num: > count+=1 else: break > return count > you need to break out of the loop when you first encounter num>elem. The reason it works in your sorted list scenario is because elem will be > num, always, after some point. It won't be in your unsorted list.
I've added the else: break in your code above j
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