find position of minimum value in list python code example

Example 1: python index of max value in list

# any list
a = [1, 7, 3, 12, 5]

# index of minimum element
# if more than 1 minimum, 
# first index is returned
min_index = a.index(min(a))

# index of maximum element
max_index = a.index(max(a))

Example 2: find the index of minimum element in a list python

# function to find minimum and maximum position in list
def minimum(a, n):
  
    # inbuilt function to find the position of minimum 
    minpos = a.index(min(a))
      
    # inbuilt function to find the position of maximum 
    maxpos = a.index(max(a)) 
      
    # printing the position 
    print "The maximum is at position", maxpos + 1  
    print "The minimum is at position", minpos + 1

Example 3: maximum and index of a list pythopn

>>> m = max(a)
>>> [i for i, j in enumerate(a) if j == m]
[9, 12]