Examples of how to find the smallest positive value in a list in python ?
1 -- Find the minimum value
Let's consider the following list
l = [ 7, 3, 6, 9, 2, -1, -5, -4, -3]
to find the smallest value, a solution is to use the function min():
min(l)
which returns here:
-1
2 -- Find the smallest positive value
Now to find the smallest positive value a solution is to use a list comprehension and then min():
min([i for i in l if i > 0])
returns
2
3 -- Find the index of the smallest positive value
To find the index of the smallest positive value, a solution is to use index():
l.index(min([i for i in l if i > 0]))
returns here:
4
