Large list, find all minima of list (python)

Question

Given a large list of fluctuating values, how do you determine all local min values? Not using numpy. Local minimum means all values in a list that are the troughs

Answer 1

I'm a big fan of iterating over these problems in stages.

l = [23, 8, -7, -7, 57, 87, 6]

# Remove identical neighbors
# l becomes [23, 8, -7, 57, 87, 6]
l = [x for x,y in zip(l[0:], l[1:]) if x != y] + [l[-1]]

# Append positive infinity to both endpoints
# l becomes [inf, 23, 8, -7, 57, 87, 6, inf]
l = [float("inf")] + l + [float("inf")]

# Retain elements where each of their neighbors are greater than them.
# l becomes [-7, 6]
l = [y for x, y, z in zip(l[0:], l[1:], l[2:]) if x > y < z]