Functional way to compare things inside a list

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 8:58 AM,  <thorsopia at lavabit.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>> That gets the result, but probably not in the cleanest way. I'm not
>> sure off-hand if Python has a convenient way to curry a function,
>
> http://docs.python.org/library/functools.html#functools.partial

Thanks, that'd be it; didn't come up in a quick search for 'curry'
(for obvious reason). So it would probably be possible to do it as a
one-liner with a honking big lambda, but if code clarity is what you
want, I'd go with the externally-defined function.

> Cheers,
> Chris of the Northern Hemisphere

:)

ChrisA