Max function question: How do I return the index of the maximum value of a list?

[Robert Kern]

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?

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Robert Kern

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