find index of a list element python code example

Example 1: find index of sublist in list python

greeting = ['hello','my','name','is','bob','how','are','you','my','name','is']

def find_sub_list(sl,l):
    results=[]
    sll=len(sl)
    for ind in (i for i,e in enumerate(l) if e==sl[0]):
        if l[ind:ind+sll]==sl:
            results.append((ind,ind+sll-1))

    return results

print find_sub_list(['my','name','is'], greeting) 
# [(1, 3), (8, 10)]

Example 2: how to find index of list of list in python

[(i, colour.index(c))
 for i, colour in enumerate(colours)
 if c in colour]