I have a very particular problem, I have a deck of cards. The deck is a list of lists of tuples, each internal list is a suit with card tuples (suit, value), sorted smallest to largest(2-Ace). I would like to find the smallest card in the deck. So basically I want to take the first object from each suit, and find the smallest. Short of an horridly ugly for loop, what is the most pythonic way to do this?
min takes a key function. You can use this to get the first element to use it as the comparison:
min(my_list, key=lambda x: x[0])