On 18 Mar, 15:19, vorticitywo... at gmail.com wrote: > Is there a function in Python analogous to the "where" function in > IDL? > > x=[0,1,2,3,4,2,8,9] > print where(x=2) > > output: > [2,5] You can try this: print filter( lambda x: a[x]==2, range(len(a))) However it's not the best solution...