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> f =3D filter(lambda s: s =3D=3D a[-1], a)

That line's assuming that the last element may also be found in arbitrary l=
ocations in the list. If it's guaranteed that they're all contiguous at the=
 upper bounds, I'd just walk the list backwards until I found one that wasn=
't matching rather than filtering.