"Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stem...@gmail.com> writes:
Are there similar functions that return not only the minimum
or maximum value, but also its position?
>>> specialmin(l)
(0,1.618033)
>>> specialmax(l)
3.141593
>>>
I believe that what you are looking for is usually called "argmax" and
"argmin" (see <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arg_max>). These don't exist in
the standard Python library as far as I can tell, but numpy does have
"argmax" and "argmin" routines.
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