Lowest Value in List

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 03:04:16 -0700, subhabangalore wrote:

> Dear Group,
> 
> I am trying to work out a solution to the following problem in Python.
> 
> The Problem:
> Suppose I have three lists.
> Each list is having 10 elements in ascending order. I have to construct
> one list having 10 elements which are of the lowest value among these 30
> elements present in the three given lists.

If they have to be the lowest *unique* values, the easiest way is to 
build a set from all three lists, then sort, and take a slice of only the 
first 10:

sorted(set(alist + blist + clist))[:10] 

If you don't want unique values, but want to keep duplicates, then drop 
the call to set:

sorted(alist + blist + clist)[:10] 



> The Solution:
> 
> I tried to address the issue in the following ways:

Thank you for posting your attempts to solve this problem! You had the 
right idea, you just did a little bit too much work.



-- 
Steven