a, 13.05.2010 16:36: > this must be easy but its taken me a couple of hours already > > i have > > a=[2,3,3,4,5,6] > > i want to know the indices where a==3 (ie 1 and 2) indices = [ i for i,item in enumerate(a) if item == 3 ] > then i want to reference these in a print [ a[i] for i in indices ] Stefan