In article <[email protected]>, steve <[email protected]> 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). -- Aahz ([email protected]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "At Resolver we've found it useful to short-circuit any doubt and just refer to comments in code as 'lies'. :-)" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
