Niels L Ellegaard wrote: > I just started learning python and I have been wondering. Is there a > short pythonic way to find the element, x, of a list, mylist, that > maximizes an expression f(x). > > In other words I am looking for a short version of the following: > > pair=[mylist[0],f(mylist[0])] > for x in mylist[1:]: > if f(x) > pair[1]: > pair=[x,f(x)]
this is already very short, what else you want? May be this : max(((f(x), x) for x in mylist)) That is first generate the (f(x),x) pairs then find the max one(first compare f(x) then x) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
