Neal D. Becker ndbecker2 at verizon.net
Mon Sep 13 16:03:36 EDT 2004

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Neal D. Becker wrote:

> What is an efficient way to find the first element in a sequence meeting
> some condition?
> 
> For example, the first number > x in a list of numbers.
> 
> 

I guess if the sequence is sorted, you could use bisect, but only for the
specific case of comparing the values.

I really was looking for a more general "find_first" function, that would
find the first occurance in a sequence meeting some predicate, with
short-circuit evaluation (not evaluating the function for every element
first).

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