Find Items & Indices In A List...

[Steven Bethard]

andrea.gavana at agip.it wrote:
> Hello NG,
> 
>       I was wondering if there is a faster/nicer method (than a for loop)
> that will allow me to find the elements (AND their indices) in a list that
> verify a certain condition. For example, assuming that I have a list like:
> 
> mylist = [0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 1, 10]
> 
> I would like to find the indices of the elements in the list that are equal
> to 1 (in this case, the 1,2,3,4,9 elements are equal to 1). I could easily
> use a for loop but I was wondering if there is a faster method...

Everyone has already given you the answer (enumerate in a LC or GE), I'd 
just comment that it's easy enough to extend their answers to any given 
condition:

 >>> def getindices(sequence, predicate):
... 	return [i for i, v in enumerate(sequence) if predicate(v)]
...
 >>> getindices([0,1,1,1,1,5,6,7,8,1,10], bool)
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
 >>> def equalsone(v):
... 	return v == 1
...
 >>> getindices([0,1,1,1,1,5,6,7,8,1,10], equalsone)
[1, 2, 3, 4, 9]
 >>> def f(v):
... 	return pow(v, 3, 4) == 3
...
 >>> getindices([0,1,1,1,1,5,6,7,8,1,10], f)
[7]

Steve