David Isaac wrote: > 1. Why is there no argmax built-in? > (This would return the index of the largest element in a sequence.)
Probably there isn't a built-in because it isn't a commonly needed function. What is your use-case for argmax? If for example you want to repeatedly remove the largest element from a list, then sort the list and pop the last element (or use a heap, except heapq lets you pop the smallest so you can't use it directly). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
