30-seconds-of-code/snippets/python/s/min-element-index.md

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title	type	language	tags	cover	dateModified
Index of min element	snippet	python	math list	two-cities	2020-11-02T19:28:27+02:00

Returns the index of the element with the minimum value in a list.

• Use min() and list.index() to obtain the minimum value in the list and then return its index.

def min_element_index(arr):
  return arr.index(min(arr))

min_element_index([3, 5, 2, 6, 10, 7, 9]) # 2