On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Raymond Hettinger <pyt...@rcn.com> wrote:
> Forgot to post the code. It is short, fast, and easy. It is explicit about
> handing the case with an empty input. And it is specific about which value
> it returns (always the first iterated value; not an arbitrary one). There's
> no guessing about what it does. It gets the job done.
I'm trying to take this suggestion in the best possible light,
which is that you honestly think I didn't read past Chapter 3 of the
Python Tutorial, and I am therefore in fact unfamiliar with function
definitions.
-- Chris
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