Steven Bethard wrote: > Can you do something like:: > > max_val, max_index = max((x, i) for i, x in enumerate(my_list)) > > ? If any two "x" values are equal, this will return the one with the > lower index. Don't know if that matters to you.
Wouldn't it return the one with the highest index? -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
