title: Python - find integer closest to 0 in list
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9706041/finding-index-of-an-item-closest-to-the-value-in-a-list-thats-not-entirely-sort">finding index of an item closest to the value in a list that&#39;s not entirely sorted</a>  </p>
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  <p>I've got a list of positive and negative numbers in Python (<code>[237, 72, -18, 237, 236, 237, 60, -158, -273, -78, 492, 243]</code>). I want to find the number which is closest to 0. How do I do this?</p>