"David Isaac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Why is there no argmax built-in? > (This would return the index of the largest element in a > sequence.) > > 2. Is this a good argmax (as long as I know the iterable is > finite)? def argmax(iterable): return max(izip( iterable, count() > ))[1] >
use len: len(iterable)-1 max -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
