"Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > What's about l.index(max(l)) ? > > Both of these methods scan the list twice. The two given by RH and SDD do > so just once. Both of those will give the index of the of the last maximum > value. If you want the index of the first max value (you did not specify > ;-), write an explicit loop.
How about (corrected but still untested): -max((v,-i) for i,v in enumerate(l))[1] I may have still missed something. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
