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

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title	type	tags	cover	dateModified
Index of max element	snippet	math list	dark-cloud	2020-11-02T19:28:27+02:00

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

• Use max() and list.index() to get the maximum value in the list and return its index.

def max_element_index(arr):
  return arr.index(max(arr))

max_element_index([5, 8, 9, 7, 10, 3, 0]) # 4