[Tutor] Selecting first matching element from a list

[Kent Johnson]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:25 AM, bob gailer <bgailer at gmail.com> wrote:
> How many ways are there in Python to go thru a list (and apply a function to
> each element)? The ones I know are:
> while
> for
> list comprehension
> map()

filter() is more appropriate than map() for this problem
generator expression
itertools functions

Kent