1. Why is there no argmax built-in? (This would return the index of the largest element in a sequence.)
2. Is this a good argmax (as long as I know the iterable is finite)? def argmax(iterable): return max(izip( iterable, count() ))[1] 3. If this is the only place in a module where I need count and izip, should I import them at the module level or at the level of the function? What are the considerations here? Thanks, Alan Isaac -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
