Most pythonic way of rotating a circular list to a canonical point

[Emile van Sebille]

On 8/1/2015 2:24 PM, Lukas Barth wrote:
> Perhaps I should clarify a bit:
>
> - I definitely need a "canonical rotation" - just a comparison result is not enough

Well, it looks to me that I don't know what a 'canonical rotation' is -- 
there's no wikipedia article and googling yields all sorts of 
specialized math related articles.

Sorry,