On Jan 25, 1:47 pm, Hexamorph <hexamo... at gmx.net> wrote: > Henry Baxter wrote: > > Oops, gmail has keyboard shortcuts apparently, to continue: > > > def maxi(l): > > m = max(l) > > for i, v in enumerate(l): > > if m == v: > > return i > > What's about l.index(max(l)) ? from itertools import izip, count answer = max(izip(l, count()))[1] Raymond