30-seconds-of-code/snippets/find_last.md

title, tags

title	tags
find_last	list,beginner

Returns the value of the last element in the provided list that satisfies the provided testing function.

Use list comprehension and next() to return the last element in lst for which fn returns True.

def find_last(lst, fn):
  return next(x for x in lst[::-1] if fn(x))

find_last([1, 2, 3, 4], lambda n: n % 2 == 1) # 3