Search a sequence for its minimum and stop as soon as the lowest possible value is found
Paul Rubin
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Sat Jan 7 22:46:10 EST 2017
Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen at helsinki.fi> 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
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