On Sun, 5 Jun 2022 at 08:00, dn <pythonl...@danceswithmice.info> wrote: > > On 05/06/2022 06.56, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Jun 2022 13:36:26 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper" > > <michael.stem...@gmail.com> declaimed the following: > > > >> > >> Are there similar functions that return not only the minimum > >> or maximum value, but also its position? > >> > > If it isn't in the library reference manual, NO... > > > > But it also isn't that difficult to write... > > > >>>> def whatAt(function, data): > > ... what = function(data) > > ... at = data.index(what) > > ... return (at, what) > > ... > >>>> l = [ 1.618033, 3.1415923536, 2.718282 ] > >>>> whatAt(min, l) > > (0, 1.618033) > >>>> whatAt(max, l) > > (1, 3.1415923536) > >>>> > > > > (properly, I should either reverse the order of the return value, or change > > the name to atWhat() ) > > ...and remembering the special case: > if the what value appears more than once in the list, the where?at will > report the first/'left-most' index only. >
Which is consistent with the vanilla min() function. >>> min([1, 1.0]) 1 ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
