Tuples don't have all the nice methods that lists have so convert it to a list.
tuple=('a','b','c','d') l=list(tuple) now you can do: list.index('c') which returns 2 Remember index returns -1 when nothing is found. Larry Bates Steve M wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to figure out the index position of a tuple member. > I know the member name, but I need to know the members index position. I > know that if I use the statement print tuple[4] that it will print the > contents of that location. What I don't understand is if I know that foo is > a member of tuple, how do I get foo's index position. > Thanks-in-Advance > Steve -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list