Finding index of an item closest to the value in a list that’s not entirely sorted

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Try the following:

min(range(len(a)), key=lambda i: abs(a[i]-11.5))

For example:

>>> a = [25.75443, 26.7803, 25.79099, 24.17642, 24.3526, 22.79056, 20.84866, 19.49222, 18.38086, 18.0358, 16.57819, 15.71255, 14.79059, 13.64154, 13.09409, 12.18347, 11.33447, 10.32184, 9.544922, 8.813385, 8.181152, 6.983734, 6.048035, 5.505096, 4.65799]
>>> min(range(len(a)), key=lambda i: abs(a[i]-11.5))
16

Or to get the index and the value:

>>> min(enumerate(a), key=lambda x: abs(x[1]-11.5))
(16, 11.33447)

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