If you are searching for the first value in an array. There are a few ways to do this. I will show you the easiest to me.
You can do this with the following. It will return 34 as the result.
val_list = [0,0,34,21,0,657,345,32,34,5,8,9] result = next(x for x in val_list if x > 0) print(result)