On 29 Aug 2020, at 13:42, Filipp Bakanov <filipp@bakanov.su> wrote:

I'd like to propose adding argmax and argmin functions to the python list. These functions return the index of a maximum / minimum element of the list. Eg:

a = [1, 4, 2, 3]
print(a.argmax())  # 1
print(a.argmin())  # 0

It's a very popular request (based on stackoverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16945518/finding-the-index-of-the-value-which-is-the-min-or-max-in-python ), and currently there is no elegant way to find it.

What do you think?

Just do this:

>>> a=[1,4,2,3]
>>> min(a)
1
>>> a.index(min(a))
0
>>> a.index(max(a))
1

Barry


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