Re: Identifying the start of good data in a list

2008-08-26 Thread tdmj
On Aug 26, 5:49 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a list that starts with zeros, has sporadic data, and then has > good data. I define the point at which the data turns good to be the > first index with a non-zero entry that is followed by at least 4 > consecutive non-zero data items (i.e. a w

Re: Identifying the start of good data in a list

2008-08-28 Thread tdmj
On Aug 27, 11:50 am, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:04:19 -0700, tdmj wrote: > > On Aug 26, 5:49 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I have a list that starts with zeros, has sporadic data, and then has > >