[Solved] Why does looking up an index *before* a swap rather than inline change the result?
Let’s add some tracing so we can see order-of-operations: import sys def findIdx(ary, tgt): retval = ary.index(tgt) print(‘First instance of %r in %r is at position %r’ % (tgt, ary, retval), file=sys.stderr) return retval data1 = [1.48, -4.96] i = 0 mn = data1[1] k = findIdx(data1, mn) data1[i], data1[k] = data1[k], data1[i] print(“Prior lookup: … Read more