Why not: >>> l = [1, 3, 5, 9, 2, 7] >>> l.index(max(l)) 3 >>> l.index(min(l)) 0 On Tue, 2021-08-31 at 21:25 -0700, ABCCDE921 wrote: > I dont want to import numpy > > argmax(list) > returns index of (left most) max element > > argmin(list) > returns index of (left most) min element