Is there a simple way to find the list index to the max value?

Arnaud Delobelle arnodel at googlemail.com
Tue Feb 16 07:41:36 EST 2010


Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel at googlemail.com> writes:

> "W. eWatson" <wolftracks at invalid.com> writes:
>
>> See Subject. a = [1,4,9,3]. Find max, 9, then index to it, 2.
>
> Here are a few ways.

[...]

My copy past went wrond and I forgot the first one:

>>> a = [1,4,9,3]
>>> max_index = a.index(max(a))
>>> max_index
2

-- 
Arnaud



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