On 16/02/2010 19:44, Aahz wrote:
In article<4b7a91b1.6030...@lonetwin.net>, steve<st...@lonetwin.net> wrote:On 02/16/2010 05:49 PM, W. eWatson wrote:See Subject. a = [1,4,9,3]. Find max, 9, then index to it, 2.The most obvious would be a.index(max(a)). Is that what you wanted ?The disadvantage of that is that it's O(2N) instead of O(N).
<Tongue-in-cheek> Well you could do this: a.sort () return -1 TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
