newbie: find position of item in a list

[Michael Hudson]

Alexander Eisenhuth <stacom at stacom-software.de> writes:

> Hallo Again,
> 
> i wonder weather there is no expression of finding the position of a element is a list like:
> 
> l = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']
> 
> l.find('b')
>   >> 1
> 
> Have I overseen something in the documentation to python ?

.index()?

M.

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