a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: > In article <4b7a91b1.6030...@lonetwin.net>, steve <st...@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).
:-) Joke aside, even though you traverse the list twice, it may still be quicker than other solutions because both max and list.index are C functions and no intermediate object is constructed. -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
