Neal Becker wrote: > What's a good/fast way to find the index of the minimum element of a > sequence? (I'm fairly sure sorting the sequence is not the fastest > approach)
>>> items = "defbhkamnz" >>> min(xrange(len(items)), key=items.__getitem__) 6 >>> items[6] 'a' Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list