[Tutor] Selecting first matching element from a list

[Noufal Ibrahim]

Hello everyone,
        What is the pythonic was of selecting the first element of a 
list matching some condition?
        I often end up using

        [x for x in lst if cond(x)][0]

        This looks bad and raises IndexError if nothing is found which 
is ugly too.

Thanks.
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