Binary search (bisection) in Python

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bisect_left finds the first position p at which an element could be inserted in a given sorted range while maintaining the sorted order. That will be the position of x if x exists in the range. If p is the past-the-end position, x wasn’t found. Otherwise, we can test to see if x is there to see if x was found.

from bisect import bisect_left

def binary_search(a, x, lo=0, hi=None):
    if hi is None: hi = len(a)
    pos = bisect_left(a, x, lo, hi)                  # find insertion position
    return pos if pos != hi and a[pos] == x else -1  # don't walk off the end

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