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Min list value based on function

Returns the minimum value of a list, after mapping each element to a value using the provided function.

Use map() with fn to map each element to a value using the provided function.
Use min() to return the minimum value.

def min_by(lst, fn):
  return min(map(fn, lst))

min_by([{ 'n': 4 }, { 'n': 2 }, { 'n': 8 }, { 'n': 6 }], lambda v : v['n']) # 2

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