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Finding the Min for positive and negative in python 3.3 list

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For example:

a=[-15,-30,-10,1,3,5]

I want to find a negative and a positive minimum.

example: negative
print(min(a)) = -30

positive
print(min(a)) = 1
posted Mar 12, 2013 by Salil Agrawal

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min(a)
and
min([e for e in a if e >=0]
answer Mar 12, 2013 by anonymous
min(a)
This does not return a negative minimum on input [1] (because there is none).

min([e for e in a if e >=0]
This does not return a positive minimum on input [0] (because there is none).



I would have said:

    pos_min = min(e for e in a if e > 0)
    neg_min = min(e for e in a if e < 0)

And then deal with the ValueError when there is no such minimum, as appropriate.
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try this:

min(a) => -30
min([n for n in a if i>0]) => 1

answer Mar 12, 2013 by anonymous
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so for example. s2 = [[1,2,2,3,2,1,4,4],[2,4,3,2,3,1]]

I am calculating the product, sum, max, min.... of each list in s2 but I get negative or 0 for the product for a lot of the lists. (I am doing this in ipython)

for x in s2: Â  Â  print(len = , len(x), sum = , sum(x), prod = , prod(x), max = , max(x), min = , min(x))
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 (len = , 100, sum = , 247, prod = , 0, max = , 4, min = , 1) (len = , 100, sum = , 230, prod = , -4611686018427387904, max = , 4, min = , 1) (len = , 100, sum = , 261, prod = , 0, max = , 4, min = , 1)
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Whats going on?

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Hi,

I have a list of arbitrary length, and I need to split it up into equal size chunks. There are some obvious ways to do this, like keeping a counter and two lists, and when the second list fills up, add it to the first list and empty the second list for the next round of data, but this is potentially extremely expensive.

I was wondering if anyone had a good solution to this for lists of any length

This should work:

l = range(1, 1000)
print chunks(l, 10) -> [ [ 1..10 ], [ 11..20 ], .., [ 991..999 ] ]

I was looking for something useful in itertools but I couldn't find anything obviously useful.

Appretiate your help.

+1 vote

For example gcd(3, -7) returns -1, which means that a co-prime test that would work in many other languages 'if gcd(x, y) == 1' will fail in Python for negative y.

And, of course, since -|x| is less than |x|, returning -|x| rather than |x| is not returning the greatest common divisor of x and y when y is negative.

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