is there such a built-in funciton, similar to filter

[Michael Hoffman]

wcc wrote:

> Beginner learning Python here.  I know filter(lambda x: x > 3, [1, 2,
> 5, -3, 4, 8]) will give me a list [5, 4, 8].  What if I only need to
> find the first item in the list that returns Ture when applying the
> filter function.  In this case, I only want to get the 5, and its index
> 2.  Is there a built-in function, or function from a module for that?
> I think it is not hard to write a function for this.  But knowing
> Python is "battery included", I thought I'd like to ask.  Thanks for
> your help. 

You can use a generator expression like this:

 >>> items = [1, 2, 5, -3, 4, 8]
 >>> ((index, item) for index, item in enumerate(items) if item > 3).next()
(2, 5)
-- 
Michael Hoffman