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