On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Demian Brecht <demianbre...@gmail.com> wrote: >> f = filter(lambda s: s == a[-1], a) > > That line's assuming that the last element may also be found in arbitrary > locations in the list. If it's guaranteed that they're all contiguous at the > upper bounds, I'd just walk the list backwards until I found one that wasn't > matching rather than filtering.
The slicing operation in the second line assumes that they're all collected at the end of the list anyway. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
