Paul Rubin writes: > Jussi Piitulainen writes: >>> Use itertools.takewhile >> How? It consumes the crucial stop element: > > Oh yucch, you're right, it takes it from both sides. How about this: > > from itertools import takewhile, islice > def minabs(xs): > a = iter(xs) > m = min(map(abs,takewhile(lambda x: x!=0, a))) > z = list(islice(a,1)) > if z: return 0 > return m
That would return 0 even when there is no 0 in xs at all. (It would also return the absolute value, not a value whose absolute value is minimal, but that is easy to fix.) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
