En Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:42:59 -0300, Chris Rebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:

B. Assuming by "distance" you meant "difference" and/or that the
distance is only in 1 dimension:

from operator import itemgetter
firsts = map(itemgetter(0), main_list)
distance = max(firsts) - min(firsts)

I think the above expression is overcomplicated. The code below does the exact same thing and is easier to understand, IMHO:

firsts = [item[0] for item in main_list]
distance = max(firsts) - min(firsts)

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