Is there a simple way to find the list index to the max value?

[Aahz]

In article <4B7A91B1.6030301 at lonetwin.net>, steve  <steve at lonetwin.net> wrote:
>On 02/16/2010 05:49 PM, W. eWatson wrote:
>>
>> See Subject. a = [1,4,9,3]. Find max, 9, then index to it, 2.
>
>The most obvious would be a.index(max(a)). Is that what you wanted ?

The disadvantage of that is that it's O(2N) instead of O(N).
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