30-seconds-of-code/snippets/min_element_index.md

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title	tags	expertise	firstSeen	lastUpdated
Index of min element	math,list	beginner	2020-10-05T22:32:00+03:00	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